GROK THIS!!

[Brian Moffet]

In article <767 at quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>
>To quote the book "'grok' means 'drink'".  (Hence "absorb completely".)
>In fact the word PREDATES Heinlein's book.  I forget the author & title,
>but oddly enough the first known book to use "grok" was an SF story about
>Mars, and used "grok" to mean "understand".  Coincidence is wonderful.

The book was "Red Planet" by Robert A. Heinlein.  Heinlein was
very careful to keep his planet cultures the same through all of his
books.  Any way, this topiuc doesn't really belong in this group
anymore.  

flame away :-)

brian moffet

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