• protistEnglish
    27·
    8 months ago

    “Grok” is a word invented by Robert Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land. It’s a verb meaning roughly “to understand deeply,” but there’s supposedly no effective English translation. I hate that this dude might ruin the word

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 months ago

      And that, along with the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Bladerunner, marks yet another piece of science fiction that Musk refers to and yet doesn’t understand.