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#131088 08/04/04 03:47 PM
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oborus

Nothing Much Obtains: the title of my memoirs.


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The Czech language has many words pertaining to food and eating which begin with "ob" e.g.

obalovany meaning breaded
obcerstveni meaning a snack served with drinks
obed meaning lunch
obiad meaning dinner
obilne klicky meaning groats
obloha meaning garnished with vegetables
oblozena masova misa meaning cold cuts
oblozeny chleb meaning sandwich

As I speak/read not one word of Czech, I have no idea what sort of root (no pun intended) makes these words appear related.



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Czech

The common Slavic prefix o(b) 'toward, around, over, into, against; from, for, to, with' is related to Skt abhi 'to, in; beyond', Gk epi 'upon, at, on, over, after, before', Latin ob 'toward, on account of'.


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Obverse.


#131093 08/05/04 01:16 AM
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Did anyone else use "ob" talk as a kid? OB was added to words in front of any vowel...or was it after a consonant?
All I can think of is my name, and I'm not using that on line. I'm incognito.


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No, never used ob talk. I'm having a hard time grasping it. Can you give an example?


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yeah, amnow, there's that whole "ubba-dubby" thing that middle school kids do. they do it on Zoom, the PBS kids show, but I couldn't find anything at their site...
I always had a lot of trouble managing to make sense of it, though my wife and at least one of my boys does it quite easily.

it's a sort of pig-latin, replacing the vowel sound with ub, or some such thing...

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http://www.cs101.org/ipij/interlude-stringXformers.html
this paragraph:
When I was a child, we used to amuse ourselves by speaking to one another in a special language called Pig Latin. The simplest version of Pig Latin has just one rule: To turn an English word into a Pig Latin one, you take the first letter off the word, then add the first letter plus "ay" to the end of the word. So, for example, "Hello" in Pig Latin is "ello-Hay", and "How have you been?" is "ow-Hay ave-hay ou-yay een-bay?" There are more sophisticated rules for Pig Latin that deal with consonant blends and words that begin with vowels, but the basic idea remains the same. It turns out that there are children's games like Pig Latin in many, many languages, though each has a slightly different set of rules. Another such game, popularized by the children's Public Television show Zoom, is Ubby Dubby, in which you add "ubb" before every vowel (cluster): "Hubbellubbo", "Hubbow hubbave yubbou bubbeen?" (my italics)


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Wow, I'm not nuts! Well, not much. Thanks, etaoin! I thought it was 'ob', but it's the same as 'ubb'. Language does change; and in the generations since I was 'speaking' ob, it's prolly grown and added a letter.


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what's the etymology of OBstetrics? Can't find in Bartleby..


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