He was quoting me quoting Hegel, talking about the relationship between familiarity and understanding. Unfortunately English doesn't have the precise distincti

He was quoting me quoting Hegel, talking about the relationship between familiarity and understanding. Unfortunately English doesn't have the precise distinction that German does, so the translation is a little confusing. To an English speaker "familiar", "known", and "understood" are almost synonymous. Many programmers I know use the word "grok" as a stand in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok