From phma@oltronics.net Sun Aug 19 11:07:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 19 Aug 2001 18:07:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 52601 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2001 18:07:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Aug 2001 18:07:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.85) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 Aug 2001 18:07:48 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id ECB8F3C463; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 14:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] glork Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 14:07:43 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <117.372360e.28b1346c@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <117.372360e.28b1346c@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0108191407430I.01556@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Sunday 19 August 2001 11:25, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone know the history of "glork"? > It seems to be related both semantically and phonetically to the ancient > (well, mid-Heinlein timeline) "grok"; is it also related historically or do > we have a case of semophonetic symbolism to gladden the hearts of > Cratylus-lovers everywhere? It is a nonsklarkish English flutzpah invented by Douglas Hofstadter for the purpose of glorking the pluggandisp. See also "glark" in the Jargon File. phma