The Golden Age of WTF
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What's the verb form of that?
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internalize
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That's just it, the whole point of grok is that it goes one step beyond understanding or mastering.
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There is nothing above mastering; mastering implies you've reached the top already
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Kinda. Mastery implies you have mastered it - but it doesn't imply that you can do it pretty much reflexively, which is where grok started.
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Mastery implies you have mastered it - but it doesn't imply that you can do it pretty much reflexively
I can use an XBox 360 gamepad reflexively; I have mastered using the gamepad. I don't need a new word to cover that concept.
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No, you've grokked it
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So no, I've mastered it.
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It might have been coined by Heinlein to mean that but that's not quite what modern parlance has made of it...
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So? I know language evolves, but I still don't see why I can't just master something, I have to 'grok' it too.
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Because you haven't mastered modern language?
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Yes, you were supposed to ;)
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That's just it, the whole point of grok is that it goes one step beyond understanding or mastering.
I think they're telling you to get off their language lawn. Even though the word was invented before most of them were born.
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-shrug- It's been one of those days and having a bit of light trolling was a nice way to wind down from perpetuated WTF.
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I was just enjoying being on the side of the guy on the lawn for once.
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Was? Does that mean you left the lawn? Isn't the goal to reach the point where you can tell the other side to leave their own lawn?
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Does that mean you left the lawn?
I don't think I was actually on the lawn. Just enjoying watch them yell at @Arantor to get off.
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I was just enjoying being on the side of the
guygirl on the lawn for once.
FTFMUnless you were talking about someone else, that is
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Unless you were talking about someone else, that is
I was talking about @Arantor, and how you were telling him to get off your lawn.
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And I don't even have a lawn so I have to use someone else's!
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So you were in fact on the side of the girl on the lawn then
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No, I was upset that the girl kept yelling at the nice man to get off his lawn.
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GET ON MY LAWN (I don't give a shit I rent.)
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No, I was upset that the girl kept yelling at the nice man to get off his lawn.
Oh, I see…
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Why did Boomzilla cross the road?
To get to the lawn on the other side.
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Just because you don't grok it?
It's a word meaning "understand" that ironically is less understood by people than the plain vanilla boring word "understand".
Also Stranger in a Strange Land was a shitty book. You know it's true.
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Kinda. Mastery implies you have mastered it - but it doesn't imply that you can do it pretty much reflexively, which is where grok started.
On the playground we used to say "know it by heart". Which is a stupid phrase, but still significantly less stupid than "grok".
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And it doesn't sound like someone just belched.
I bet you're the kind of person who wouldn't use a word just because it's cromulent.
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Hey, that took me all of two minutes, while I should have been working. I demand more of a reaction
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Endo- or exothermic?
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Grok - Wikipedia
