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Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by gouggoug on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:32PM (#45433725)
As a bilingual, non-native, English speaker, grug brain is particularly hard to read and understand.

I don’t understand what « grug » is supposed to mean for example.

That being said I still enjoy the blog.

Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by ViscountPenguin on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:37PM (#45433757)
"Grug" in this context basically just means a kind of simplistic caveperson-like mindset.

For whatever reason, the sound "Grug" is associated with cavepeople in English.

Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by Jtsummers on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:51PM (#45434087)
Grug was a caveman character in a movie, I figured that's where the name came from.
Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by unwind on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:30AM (#45435572)
Seems to be a reference to "The Croods" [1], a 2013 animated movie in which Nicholas Cage (!) voices the caveman Grug.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croods

Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by wild_egg on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:26PM (#45433973)
Grug is simply the narrator's name. He's speaking in the third person.

Meant to be some generic "caveman" name/character.

Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by jibal on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @01:56AM (#45434721)
Whenever I run into such a problem I use google (or the web search of your choice). You may not have expected it (and you won't always be this fortunate), but this immediately makes the identity, nature, and meaning of grug evident.
Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by kitd on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:46AM (#45435023)
This is one instance where an AI might shine. Ask it to summarise the article in the style of an articulate intelligent person.
Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by amiga386 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @05:54AM (#45435999)
grug is grug name

grug neighbours ugg, oog, thog, thag, tragg, yog, grr, argh not use computer

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HulkSpeak

Re:The Software Essays That Shaped Me by arcxi on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @09:14AM (#45437320)
search for a plain english translation, it's out there