WAAAAAY back, when I was in Jr. High school, I had a friend that would say "Spock it out", in lieu of saying "check it out", as in Mr. Spock always being inquisitive. I've been saying that since and now my friends and family say it. I'm hereby authorizing it's use.
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shareThe word that I would propose for use is "grock".
It means to understand something, to get it. That eureka moment where it clicks. That's when you have grocked it.
This is how to use it in a sentence:
"The more I grock the intricacies of this language, the more I fall in love with it."
What is it derived from?
shareIt's a word that was used in geek culture, especially computer geeks.
Here is the Wiktionary page for grok (or grock).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grok?useskin=vector
Cool. I've never heard the word before.
shareMy bad. Mixed up Bradbury w Heinlein
shareYeah, I love words and language in general, and I think it's a pretty cool word. I really like the fact that it not only captures understanding something, but also that moment when everything clicks and you fully and completely just get it.
shareGrok first appeared in Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" (1961).
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