tomhchappell wrote:
> Stephen, thanks for confirming my vague feeling with solid history.
>
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Mulraney
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>><ataltane.conlang@G...> wrote:
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>>ObConlang: Drat. No activity for a long time...
I've been busy the last couple of days with a new relay that's started
on the relay list. I decided to put up a slightly more up to date
version of my Minza page for reference in the relay, although it's still
far from complete. There's been a lot of Minza development recently that
hasn't made it into the web pages yet.
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Minza/index.html
> What does "ObConlang" mean? I've seen it a lot. Is the "Ob" prefix
> used with a standard meaning?
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> Thanks for writing.
>
> Tom H.C. in MI
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"Ob" stands for "obligatory" and used to be common in Usenet discussion
groups, when only a small part of a message is actually on topic for the
group. I guess the idea is more or less that a mainly off-topic message
can be brought on topic by mentioning something related to the topic of
the group.