glark

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glark - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

glark - 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.