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> The general idea is, though, of understanding in a greater, more all encompassing sense that is only possible when someone/something is no longer alien. I wo
by avisser 5y ago
> The general idea is, though, of understanding in a greater, more all encompassing sense that is only possible when someone/something is no longer alien.
I would put forward "grok" as a translation. Your use of "no longer alien" evokes that word all the more.
- jamiek88 5y agoFunny how a fictional word, ostensibly Martian, can come to have colloquial meaning in English, even to those who haven’t read the book. Shakespeare and Aesop… and Heinlein.