glark

/glark/ , vt. To figure something out from context. The System III manuals
are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context.
Interestingly, the word was originally glork ; the context was This gubblick
contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp
can be glorked [sic] from context (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter
in his Metamagical Themas column in the January 1981 Scientific American ).
It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb to glark because glork
was already an established jargon term (some hackers do report using the
original term). Compare grok , zen.

