Monads in pictures

Re:Monads in pictures by kristopolous on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @06:50AM (#4412121)

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?

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Re:Monads in pictures by icebraining on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @09:01AM (#4412468)

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.

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Re:Monads in pictures by boothead on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:06AM (#4412298)

Here you go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

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Re:Monads in pictures by dllthomas on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @11:35AM (#4413149)

Also http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/grok.html

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Re:Monads in pictures by AnthonBerg on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:13AM (#4412315)

People like it :)

(I don't.)

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