Discovered as I listened to myself stumbling over pronunciation while blabbing — in real life — about the challenges of blogging while also using Grok.
Close to grog·gy adjective dazed, weak, or unsteady, especially from illness, intoxication, sleep, or a blow: "the sleeping pills had left her feeling groggy"
If it's a portmanteau word, then we have to presuppose the existence of an activity called "Grokking". Which is basically a way for people who are not teenage boys to interact obsessively with a computer. Video games for chicks. No one and nothing will ever be as completely devoted to whatever pushes your buttons as a computer is.
The name of the platform is already a noun. You are verbing it. Actually, Heinlein already invented the verb "grok" in Stranger in a Strange Land. To grok something is to understand it completely, at an intuitive level. I suspect that whoever named Grok was aware of that usage.
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Close to grog·gy
adjective
dazed, weak, or unsteady, especially from illness, intoxication, sleep, or a blow:
"the sleeping pills had left her feeling groggy"
Imbibing a full body grog is intoxicating. That said, pass the salsa. Hold the Guac.
How about bogging for when you get bogged down with your blog.
If it's a portmanteau word, then we have to presuppose the existence of an activity called "Grokking". Which is basically a way for people who are not teenage boys to interact obsessively with a computer. Video games for chicks.
No one and nothing will ever be as completely devoted to whatever pushes your buttons as a computer is.
Some people will google, others will bing, a few yahoo(s), and many will duck, duck, go in a googol searches for the definitive portmanteau.
I appreciate portmanteau. This one was almost immediately apparent, given my familiarity with this blog.
I was trying to say Grokking. Obviously, people will use the name of the platform as a noun.
Grogging is also an early morning process for diverse people.
I used to go grogging but now I stick to wine.
Grokking, grogging, that's funny without being rude. Can we attribute this joyful portmanteau to a sly AI or an early morning Freudian slip?
The name of the platform is already a noun. You are verbing it. Actually, Heinlein already invented the verb "grok" in Stranger in a Strange Land. To grok something is to understand it completely, at an intuitive level. I suspect that whoever named Grok was aware of that usage.
I prefer the robust notes of bilge in a whiskey barrel aged Tawny Portmanteau.
Grokking is trekking through an artificial mind
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