{"id":693,"date":"2017-05-16T22:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T02:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2021-04-02T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:40:11","slug":"im-digging-bafflegab-and-grok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/16\/im-digging-bafflegab-and-grok\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m digging &#8220;bafflegab&#8221; and &#8220;grok.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <em>Grammatically Correct<\/em>, Anne Stilman casually uses the word <em>bafflegab<\/em>, a word I had never heard before. I immediately looked it up. It means almost exactly what you&#8217;d expect, given that it looks like it&#8217;s had two perfectly normal words grabbed and stuck together. If you know what <em>baffle<\/em> means, and you know what <em>gab<\/em> means, it&#8217;s likely you can figure out what <em>bafflegab<\/em> means\u2014even if you don&#8217;t rush to a dictionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I immediately texted &#8220;bafflegab&#8221;\u2014followed by &#8220;I love it!&#8221;\u2014 to several friends of mine who I knew would appreciate it. To my surprise, some of them had already heard of it. But my ego was moderately assuaged by others who texted back, asking me to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a similar vein, I was stoked to discover a word I&#8217;ve always loved is also in dictionaries. Robert A. Heinlein coined the word <em>grok<\/em> in his seminal science fiction novel <em>Stranger in a Strange Land<\/em>. I&#8217;m not going to provide a definition for this word either (I think part of the fun is looking it up), but now I can use it freely without quite so much risk of being considered a nerd. I think it&#8217;s very cool that it&#8217;s moved into a more mainstream audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Grammatically Correct, Anne Stilman casually uses the word bafflegab, a word I had never heard before. I immediately looked it up. It means almost &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","archive-loop-container"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}