glark
/glark/ To figure something out from context. "The sy stem III manual s are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Intere stingly, the word wa s originally "glork" the context wa s "Thi s gubblick contain s many non sklarki sh Engli sh flutzpah s, but the overall pluggandi sp can be glorked [ sic] from context" (David Mo ser, quoted by Dougla s Hof stadter in hi s "Metamagical Thema s" column in the January 1981 " scientific American"). It i s conjectured that hacki sh u sage mutated the verb to "glark" becau se glork wa s already an e stabli shed jargon term. Compare grok, zen. [ Jargon File] style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-style:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition suitable contents: [ = ] [ ad ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ b ] [ bb ] [ be ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ con ] [ context ] [ D ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ English ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fr ] [ ga ] [ ge ] [ gen ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ glork ] [ gr ] [ grok ] [ gu ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hackish ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hr ] [ hs ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ is ] [ J ] [ jar ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lr ] [ ls ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ magic ] [ man ] [ mn ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mu ] [ na ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ nu ] [ om ] [ pa ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ s ] [ sa ] [ se ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sk ] [ so ] [ st ] [ T ] [ text ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tt ] [ tty ] [ tz ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ us ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ word ] [ zen ]
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