Editing Talk:274: With Apologies to The Who
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«"grok" is a synonym for "understand".» Well, no. The word is from Robert Heinlein's «Stranger in a Strange Land» published in 1961, where it is defined as «Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.» Obviously, this word belongs to the old people being dissed in the lyrics. [[User:Sodapop|Sodapop]] ([[User talk:Sodapop|talk]]) 09:08, 18 January 2015 (UTC) | «"grok" is a synonym for "understand".» Well, no. The word is from Robert Heinlein's «Stranger in a Strange Land» published in 1961, where it is defined as «Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.» Obviously, this word belongs to the old people being dissed in the lyrics. [[User:Sodapop|Sodapop]] ([[User talk:Sodapop|talk]]) 09:08, 18 January 2015 (UTC) | ||
:Yes, which means that Grok is out of place in the anachronistic song lyrics, being a word whose popularity predates the actual Who lyrics. —[[User:Kazvorpal|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal|talk]]) 05:41, 1 November 2019 (UTC) | :Yes, which means that Grok is out of place in the anachronistic song lyrics, being a word whose popularity predates the actual Who lyrics. —[[User:Kazvorpal|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal|talk]]) 05:41, 1 November 2019 (UTC) | ||
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