Beyond School

I couldn’t resist grabbing this screenshot of the Answers Firefox add-on defining the word “grok” in this context: beneath OED lexicographer and “Dictionary Evangelist” Erin McKean’s TED talk on 21st C. lexicography, and above Graham, who rightly asked in one of two funny comments what the hell I was trying to say in one of the many embarrassing sentences I bang out on these pages.

So sue me. I get exuberant.

But cereal, folks: look at that picture: it even sources this bit of slang back to Heinlein’s originating coinage. When I was a kid, I had to walk through the snows of the school hallways ten miles uphill backwards to get that kind of info in the library. Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it.

Do you grok it now, Graham?

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