in reply to The origin of the word "obfu"

It's been replied that "obfu" is short for "obfuscated", which has a long history. That's certainly the main truth.

I think that "obfu" is reinforced by the popular use of "-fu" as a suffix for wisdom in adversity.

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Re^2: The origin of the word "obfu"
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2005 at 14:59 UTC

    …but probably not the popular use of “ob-” as a prefix to denote “obligatory”. :-) Which is a pity.

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      So obfu would be "mandatory wisdom"? Actually, I thought -fu was more "skill" than "wisdom"...


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        You missed a bit… it was “wisdom in adversity.”

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