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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
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Is that where the 70s slang term came from? I believe people used to use it to mean understand, like "You grok what I'm saying?"
And the 70s-80s-9s hacker jargon. http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/grok.html
Yes. Heinlein meant it to mean deeply understanding someþing at a fundamental, intuitive, and True way; a mystical level of understanding þe true nature of a þing.
Sounds a bit like Tales of Earthsea, which has a similar concept in discovering the true name of something
SiaSL was published 7 years before þe first Earthsea, so þere could have been an influence! Le Guin almost certainly had read Stranger. Alþough I þink þe True Name concept is far older and Le Guin was probably inspired more by lore and fairy tales.