Wordie: Grok: Comments

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:19:43 +0000

"It was far too busy, as always; for years there had been fender-benders at this intersection, mostly caused by people who simply couldn't grok the idea of a four-way stop where everybody took turns, and just went bashing through instead."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.

P.S. Grok is the ugliest word I can think of.

Comment by arby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:19:43 +0000

OMG these people scare me.

Comment by cydonian, about 1 year ago

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:48:42 +0000

quepol, perhaps you don't, ah, grok Wordie sufficiently.

Comment by quepol, about 1 year ago

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:25:25 +0000

I'm amazed that I was only the 47th wordie to add this. Perhaps the crowd here is not as geeky as I expected. schadenfreude, however, has nearly 300 "followers"!

Comment by arby, about 1 year ago

Mon, 07 May 2007 00:36:23 +0000

I got used to the unattractiveness of the word itself in the course of reading the book. Now I just love it.

Comment by bkerr, about 1 year ago

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:58:55 +0000

Grokking grok: http://www.aprendizdetodo.com/language/?item=20070330

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:14:59 +0000

Yuck. Ditto, u.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:41:28 +0000

I can't stand this word. I love the concept, and it definitely needs a word attached to it... but grok? It sounds like cat scat.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:27:40 +0000

At its simplest, it means to eat, so the observed actually become part of observer.

[Drink] deeply of my cup

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:55:49 +0000

Grok means to understand so throughly that the observer becomes part of that wich is observed

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:25:09 +0000

When I have the time, I'll post some good stuff on grok from "Stranger in a Strange Land".