New? It's over 50 years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

"new favorite word" not "favorite new word". Also, see http://xkcd.com/1053/

He said "my new favorite word," not "my favorite new word." You could have linked to your potentially-of-interest article without taking a jab at the original commenter.

edit: This is what I get for leaving pages open and coming back to them later.

Grok was a favorite word in the .com collapse days with marketing types. Just saying.

Grok : favorite word since 1961 - and quite well documented... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok