from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
glark
/glark/, vt.
To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are
pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context."
Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the context was "This
gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall
pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by
Douglas Hofstadter in his Metamagical Themas column in the January
1981 Scientific American). It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated
the verb to `glark' because {glork} was already an established jargon
term (some hackers do report using the original term). Compare {grok},
{zen}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
glark
/glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System III
manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the
meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally
"glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many
nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp
can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by
Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the
January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that
hackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because {glork} was
already an established jargon term.
Compare {grok}, {zen}.
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