From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: an obnoxious observation about prefi - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1300 Posted: Thu Jan 6 18:46:08 1983 Received: Mon Jan 10 02:52:56 1983 #R:csu-cs:-195600:uicsl:8600001:000:203 uicsl!preece Jan 5 14:40:00 1983 I seem to remember 'ob' is a Latin preposition meaning 'on account of,' so I don't associate it with negation. 'Nocere' was 'to harm', as I recall, so obnoxious would be 'on account of being harmful'? c