grok

"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.

OMG these people scare me.

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

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"!

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

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

Yuck. Ditto, u.

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.

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

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

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