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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: GROK THIS!!
Keywords: grok
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Date: 29 Nov 88 11:57:56 GMT
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In article <3454@ttidca.TTI.COM> paulb@ncc1701.tti.com (Paul Blumstein) writes:
>In article <1289@leah.Albany.Edu> bv3456@leah.albany.edu (Victor @ The Concrete Museum) writes:
>+> Could anyone explain what a GROK is?  (Some acronym?)
>+
>+If I remember correctly, R.A. Heinlein wrote a book in the early 60's called
>+'A Stranger in a Strange Land', which became sort of a cult hit.

To quote the book "'grok' means 'drink'".  (Hence "absorb completely".)
In fact the word PREDATES Heinlein's book.  I forget the author & title,
but oddly enough the first known book to use "grok" was an SF story about
Mars, and used "grok" to mean "understand".  Coincidence is wonderful.