Okay, so there have been "grok" questions before..but..what I want to know is, what do YOU think "grokking" really means? I was asked, and for the life of me, I just couldn't explain it!
2007-02-06 05:31:49 · 5 answers · asked by aidan402 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I know Stranger In a Strange Land, and Valentine Michael Smith, from reading it. It was Robert Heinlein that wrote it. I have read it many times, until I feel as though I "grok" it! I just can't seem to explain it!
2007-02-06 06:03:11 · update #1
Grok means to fully understand and feel something from the tips of your toes to your scalp. Roughly translated, to grok means to know. To truly understand, though, it helps to read the book.
May you drink deep. ^^
2007-02-06 05:47:38 · answer #1 · answered by Flutterburger 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Grok - used by an author to explain something that was basically unexplainable. Ray Bradbury I think was the author.
It's a style of life, based on an alien life form.
Do I? I have no idea as it was decades ago that I read the story!
Stranger in a Strange Land IS the story!! way to go there!
2007-02-06 13:48:48 · answer #2 · answered by flowerpet56 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You have to read the book (which I read in high school...and unfortunately, that was soooo long ago, that I forgot the name of the d@mn book). But it was about a guy from Mars on Earth.
I do grok, I truly do. Unfortunately, I don't grok as much as I would like to. :((
2007-02-06 13:36:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Grok, to put it simply, means "To understand fully".
The word comes from Heinlein's 'Stranger in a Strange Land' where it is a word used by a martian and that literally means "To drink".
The character in Heinlein's novel defines it as such:
'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 we are from Earth) as color means to a blind man.'
I think everyone does it or trys to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
2007-02-06 13:36:23 · answer #4 · answered by Ralph 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
grok? ailen word? chinese? secret code word?
2007-02-06 13:40:18 · answer #5 · answered by el 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋