GROK THIS!!

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

In article <3454 at ttidca.TTI.COM> paulb at ncc1701.tti.com (Paul Blumstein) writes:
>In article <1289 at leah.Albany.Edu> bv3456 at 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.