I was just chatting with QueenTonya on IM and used the term grok, which sent her off into gales of cyberlaughter.
Okay, I use it. I use it not entirely ironically – well, sometimes.
I’m 50.
Anyone else want to admit this?
I was just chatting with QueenTonya on IM and used the term grok, which sent her off into gales of cyberlaughter.
Okay, I use it. I use it not entirely ironically – well, sometimes.
I’m 50.
Anyone else want to admit this?
You’re not getting ME to admit I’m 50, that’s fer damn sure.
('Cuz I’m 40.)
But I grok “grok.”
Yes. I grok grok, and I grok you, too.
To wit: she used grok and groovy in a single sentence.
I thought one had to apply for archeological permits to do that!
Incidentally, you can get a shirt that says “I grok Spock”. For the ultra-geeks.
Hey! I told you that in confidence!
Thou art God.
That would be the only instance in which I would use the term although I don’t actually grok him.
“Certainly ‘Thou art God’–but who isn’t?”
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
"Grok means ‘to drink’ "
Can anyone say it with a Martian accent?
I was under the impression from reading SIASL (and particularly the last scene with the “family”, after Michael’s confrontation with the outraged public)that “grok” means “to eat”, specifically to eat an individual’s flesh in order to fully assimilate him/her into your being.
Um, what does that mean and where did it come from?
-Wolfian, 21
What it means is a matter of interpretation, which is why you’re seeing so many different answers (all of which are correct, BTW.) Where it’s from is Robert Heinlein’s book A Stranger In A Strange Land, about a human raised by Martians who returns to Earth as an adult.
Grok means “Drink”.
It includes ‘drinking’ (eating) another’s body, but due to the lack of water on Mars, drinking is more important. Hence the water-sharing ceremony and all that.
Thou Art Geek… but who isn’t? q;}
Yes, but it hurts my throat, and sometimes things disappear, or fly about the room.
What, there’s an age minimum for reading Heinlein now?
I’m 26 and I’ve read Stranger in a Strange Land. That’s four hours I’ll never get back.
For a long time, I wanted to be Jubal Harshaw…
I think his character still influences me. But that may just be the result of being steeped in RAH’s stories from a very early age. Jubal was RAH, really.
Did you want those four hours back?
No age minimum but admittedly, all of RAH’s stuff is dated and hasn’t aged well. When SIASL was new, however, it was eye-opening. Think of what was going on back then.