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Re: Another Technic Creation
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Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:21:40 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDM.stopspamORG
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote:
> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=grok
Whoo, it's even in the OED:
grok gro+k, v. U.S. slang. Also grock. Arbitrary formation by Heinlein (see
quot. 1961). a. trans. (also with obj. clause) To understand intuitively or
by empathy; to establish rapport with. b. intr. To empathize or communicate
sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment.
1961 R. Heinlein Stranger in Strange Land iii. 18 Smith had been aware of
the doctors but had grokked that their intentions were benign.
1961 R. Heinlein Stranger in Strange Land xxiv. 250 Now that he knew himself
to be self he was free to grok ever closer to his brothers.
1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test vi. 86 Instead they are all
rapping and grokking over the sound it made..as if they had synched
into a never-before-heard thing, a unique thing.
1968 Playboy June 80 He met her at an acid-rock ball and she grokked him,
this ultracool miss loaded with experience and bereft of emotion.
1969 New Yorker 15 Mar. 35, I was thinking we ought to get together
somewhere, Mr. Zzyzbyzynsky, and grok about our problems.
1975 D. Lodge Changing Places iv. 137 Nestling earth couple would like to
find water brothers to grock with in peace.
1984 InfoWorld 21 May 32 There isn't any software! Only different internal
states of hardware. It's all hardware! It's a shame programmers don't
grok that better.
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