Decent article, but I have something a little off ... it's an honest question though:
What compels people to use words like "grok"? Is comprehend, digest, understand, follow, etc. so insufficient that it necessitates an ugly sounding word meaning emotional absorption to be misappropriated as mental absorption? There's no good tense rules established and it's not widely known outside the domain of nerdom. So I ask, to what ends?
meaning emotional absorption to be misappropriated as mental absorption
Misappropriated? Wouldn't 'grok' mean absorption of all kinds?
Personally, I like the word. It implies something more than simple comprehension or understanding. That said, I think it's misapplied here, exactly because of that difference. As an introductory tutorial, the reader is just beginning to understand the concept. It'll take much more than that to achieve what the word implies.
What compels people to use words like "grok"? Is comprehend, digest, understand, follow, etc. so insufficient that it necessitates an ugly sounding word meaning emotional absorption to be misappropriated as mental absorption? There's no good tense rules established and it's not widely known outside the domain of nerdom. So I ask, to what ends?