Grok and Other Nerd Words

Since we're talking about Stranger in a Strange Land, I had a quick note about language. The word "grok" is very important in this book--it means (roughly translated) to Know. If you know any Spanish, it's the difference between conocer and entender. To know a fact (entender) and to know deeply (the other one). It's an important and good word and it's important to point out that it simply doesn't translate to English well. But of course only nerds know it. Remember "I Grok Spock?"
I would have liked to use this word in everyday conversation (like I do thee and thy and thine and other stuff that gets lodged in my head), but it's not widely enough known, except as a word that extreme nerds use. Damn nerds.
Reminds me, I named a project I'm working on at work "Mjolnir". That's Thor's hammer. The people I work for really like acronyms, so they tend to spell it out rather than say it ("mi-yoll-near"). I named a server Valkyrie once, too--I figured it was a nice common word. The guy that rides a motorcycle to work picked it up immediately. Otherwise you'd think it was a random collection of vowels and consonants and the letter Y. It's not a Czech name!
Anyhow, more later.