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glark
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/glark/ , vt. To figure something out from context. The System III manuals
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are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context.
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Interestingly, the word was originally glork ; the context was This gubblick
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contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp
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can be glorked [sic] from context (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter
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in his Metamagical Themas column in the January 1981 Scientific American ).
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It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb to glark because glork
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was already an established jargon term (some hackers do report using the
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original term). Compare grok , zen.
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