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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: grok ?
To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:00:32 -0600 (CST)
Cc: robh@imdb.com, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199703191732.KAA13800@seagull.rtd.com> from Don Yuniskis at "Mar 19, 97 10:32:26 am"
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Don Yuniskis wrote:

> > "grok" isn't in my vocabulary. I assume it means "support" or "handle"
> 
Robert A. Heinlein, _Stranger in a Strange Land_.  Right the first time.

> It's from a Heinlein novel (perhaps _Stranger in a Strange Land_?  Sorry,
> I can't recall things that I've read that long ago... Maybe _I will Fear
> No Evil_?).  Basically, it means "understand" (though in the Heinlein
> context it meant far more...)
far, far, far more...:)
> 
> --don
> 

Gary
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