Karen

Kelly, honey, you just showed your (young) age. From Word of the Day:

grok \GRAWK\, verb:
1. To understand, especially in a profound and intimate way. Slang.

"If you want to grok the language, get your mitts on the new Random House
Historical Dictionary of American Slang."
-- San Jose Mercury News, July 22, 1994

"For those who don't quite grok the Web, it can be an intimidating
challenge."
-- New York Times, June 1, 1997.


The slang word grok was coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science fiction
novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", where it is a Martian word meaning
literally "to drink" and metaphorically "to be one with". It was adopted
into the vocabulary of 1960's youth and hackish jargon, whence it has become
a part of net culture.



>>That was all really sweet and right, Nancy!


.........but what is GROK?

~Kelly<<


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Karen

In addition, the phrase "I grok Spock" should be avoided at all costs (as
should its speakers.) It's an abhorrent mixing of metaphors. I like my
Heinlein and Roddenberry separately, not together, thank you. <g>

Karen

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In a message dated 7/25/2003 8:45:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
kbmatlock@... writes:


> Kelly, honey, you just showed your (young) age. From Word of the Day:
>

<G> I doubt I'm showing how *young* I am at almost 43---but it DOES show my
SciFi ignorance!

~Kelly


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