Sky's introduction of 'mob' into the lexicon

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  • tangar
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    • Mar 2015
    • 1004

    #31
    Originally posted by Estie
    a "mob" of mobs ?
    nope, mob as one monster; mobs for several monstrs.. so `mob` in Russian used as shortener for `monster` for long time..
    Last edited by tangar; December 4, 2021, 12:12.
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    • Pete Mack
      Prophet
      • Apr 2007
      • 6883

      #32
      For the record: i do not like this lexicon. "A mobs" just does not work.

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      • ekolis
        Knight
        • Apr 2007
        • 921

        #33
        Wait, "mob" is short for "mobile"? I always thought it was shorthand used by game developers to mean "Monster OBject" - back in the day variable names were limited in length, and the prevailing theory was that variable names should be as short as possible, to make them easier to type. So, mob might be a monster object, and pob might be a player object, and iob might be an item object, or whatever, but for some reason only mob stuck around...
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        • Ingwe Ingweron
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          • Jan 2009
          • 2129

          #34
          Well, to me, "mob" still means "mafia", "la cosa nostra".
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