Cypherpunks' mail database does exist (fwd)

Adam Shostack adam at bwh.harvard.edu
Wed Jun 15 17:20:07 PDT 1994


You wrote:

| > It does my heart good to hear someone use the term 'grok' -- I don't
| > hear many folks use that term very much anymore.   ,-)
| > 
| > - paul
| >  
| > 
| What does it mean?

To drink. :)

	(Actually, it means to understand something fully &
completely, but the literal translation is 'to drink.'  See Robert
Hienlien's Stranger in a Strange Land for its origins.)

Adam



-- 
Adam Shostack 				       adam at bwh.harvard.edu

Politics.  From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small,
annoying bloodsucker.







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