"grok" (was Karpov in Kansas)

[grier]

The OED gives quotations from `Stranger in a Strange Land' (1961),
T. Wolfe's `Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' (1968), Playboy (1968), New
Yorker (1969), D.Lodge's `Changing Places' (1975) & Infoworld (1984). They conversely do not list empirically anything before `Stranger' but there's no claim that this is where it originated. The entomology is gave as, `Arbitrary formation by Heinlein..

[NecMas]

Famously coined by Heinlein. The term and much else about "Stranger in a Strange Land" spawned study groups at the time. These pages give some relevant quotes from "Stranger".

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212216,00.html

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=339

Saludos, Mig

Mig Greengard
http://www.chessninja.com
Because Losing Sucks.