[ysavir]

Thank you for sharing this! I used to use Grok incorrectly before reading Stranger in a Strange Land and now lament that the intended meaning is so poorly understood. While I can appreciate the irony that people don't grok grok, I guess I have to acknowledge that language evolves and generalizes, and not even Heinlein, providing a fairly original word and concept, is exempt from that effect.

[carapace]

It's worth noting that the root concept of the Martian word "grok" is to eat, to digest (and thereby become one.)