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["Brent McMillan" <brent@gp.org>]

"Grok" comes from an old science fiction story by Robert Heinlein
entitled, "Stranger in a Strange Land."  It's a wonderful book which I
highly recommend. It basically means to comprehend fully.

Sincerely:

Brent McMillan


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[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence F.
London, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:51 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] gailt network ???

Marimike6@cs.com wrote:

> "so far I have not been able to find out what grok means - please
enighten 
> me"
> 
> dirtfarmer--
> 
> Grok, in your ancient Scottish dialect, would mean "ken". Hep cats
might say 
> "dig". It comes from the Heinlein novel of forty years past, Stranger
in a 
> Strange Land.

Hah so, enightenment has arived. I had thought it was computer slang for

something like parse with spent tealeaves in cup.

I suppose "Intelligent" Design (tm god,llc) could be employed to find 
its derivation. A few things come to mind:

grasp -  devine, surmise, acertain, get around it
crock -  a container, unit of measurement; figuratively, a quantity of
          something distasteful of unfortunate proportions
gronk -  the sound hurled by a dinasaur who has just tripped on an extra
          low-hanging testicle
grog - what he uses for the next several hours for recovery



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