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Article #672Re: grok?
From: Tom Fitzgerald
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 02:57
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 02:57
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> pa...@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) writes: >> Can somebody enlighten me as the the [computer?] etymology of "grok". It's >> a great word! tarv...@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes: > It is originally Martian, and means literally "to drink" but has, > due to the religious significance of water to Martians, become to > mean something like to understand, comprehend thoroughly... It also means "to eat the flesh of a member of the same species, especially a friend or relative". Those Martians were a barrel of laughs. --- Tom Fitzgerald fi...@wang.com It's a mistake to believe that Wang Labs ...!uunet!wang!fitz the die is cast. In reality, it Lowell MA, USA 1-508-967-5278 is injection-molded.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.UUCP (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: grok? Message-ID: <774@wang.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 90 02:57:09 GMT References: <12588@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2561@tukki.jyu.fi> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA Lines: 16 Posted: Wed Jan 3 03:57:09 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit