--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > >
> > > DO yuo know what "grok" means?
> >
> > Just what I got from Heinlein and how it's used in common use now.
> >
> > Read Stranger in a Strange Land, then you'll get it. Well, maybe.
> >
>
> Obviously you didn't grok grok.
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> BTW,there is a specific meaning given in the book itself.
grok
To grok (pronounced GRAHK) something is to understand something so
well that it is fully absorbed into oneself. In Robert Heinlein's
science-fiction novel of 1961, Stranger in a Strange Land, the word is
Martian and literally means "to drink" but metaphorically means "to
take it all in," to understand fully, or to "be at one with." Today,
grok sometimes is used to include acceptance as well as comprehension
- to "dig" or appreciate as well as to know.
As one character from Heinlein's novel says:
'Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes
a part of the observed - to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in
group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion,
philosophy, and science - and it means as little to us (because we are
from Earth) as color means to a blind man.
In common usage, "Do you grok?" seems close in meaning to "Do you get
it?"
Same thing, amongst other things, Jimi Hendrix meant when he sang a
few years later "Are you Experienced?"
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