>>>Hi Terry
>>>
>>>nice to found you back.
>>>>
>>>Can you give an explanation to
>>>>..., which we all know is a doddle of a degree course
>>>
>>>I mean I catch the idea but didn't grok it.
>>>
>>>Agnes
>>
>>Hi Agnes. A "doddle" is an easy piece of work. Brit slang only afaik,
>>
>>What's "grok"
>>
>>Terry
>
>What's Grok??? Didn't you ever read Arthur Clarke's Childhoods End. I just kind of thought everybody had read it at some time in their lives.
>
>It means to really understand down deep. Actually that's a pale meaning. It means to GROK, dammit!

I think I did - way back - but not remember an odd word :-) i thought this was some German corruption of misuse of an English word, like "...nice to foundfind you back." :-)