grok
I came across the term "grok" while reading the book "stranger in a strange land" by Robert Heinlein -- one of the best books I've read from one of my favorite authors by far.
I don't recall coming across this term being used at all anywhere earlier. Throughout the book, different people finally "grok" the meaning of "grok" in their own aha moments. Interestingly, since having completed that book, I am coming across the usage of "grok" all over the place in geek blogs I read -- and that too in very recent posts.
Now either all these people also read this (about 40 year old) book at the same time as I did or maybe I read the term earlier but never grok'ed what I was reading and never remembered...
Either way, it is interesting to find that a fiction writer can just add a whole concept and a whole new word to the english language just through a simple story. Here is what grok-wikipedia has to say about it:
I don't recall coming across this term being used at all anywhere earlier. Throughout the book, different people finally "grok" the meaning of "grok" in their own aha moments. Interestingly, since having completed that book, I am coming across the usage of "grok" all over the place in geek blogs I read -- and that too in very recent posts.
Now either all these people also read this (about 40 year old) book at the same time as I did or maybe I read the term earlier but never grok'ed what I was reading and never remembered...
Either way, it is interesting to find that a fiction writer can just add a whole concept and a whole new word to the english language just through a simple story. Here is what grok-wikipedia has to say about it:
posted by Manish at 3:05 AM
2 Comments:
same, absolutely same with me! The story, the author and the term!!
reading some interesting indian authors these days. will post soon...nothing like grok though.
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