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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>glark</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="GIYF.html" title="GIYF"/><link rel="next" href="glass.html" title="glass"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">glark</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GIYF.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="glass.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="glark"/><dt xmlns="" id="glark"><b>glark</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/glark/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To figure something out from context. “<span class="quote">The System III manuals
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are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from
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context.</span>” Interestingly, the word was originally
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‘glork’; the context was “<span class="quote">This gubblick contains many
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nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked
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[sic] from context</span>” (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in
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his <i class="citetitle">Metamagical Themas</i> column in the January 1981
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<i class="citetitle">Scientific American</i>). It is conjectured that hacker
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usage mutated the verb to ‘glark’ because
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<a href="glork.html"><i class="glossterm">glork</i></a> was already an established jargon term (some
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hackers do report using the original term). Compare
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