top | item 45433725 (no title) gouggoug | 5 months ago As a bilingual, non-native, English speaker, grug brain is particularly hard to read and understand.I don’t understand what « grug » is supposed to mean for example.That being said I still enjoy the blog. discuss order hn newest ViscountPenguin|5 months ago "Grug" in this context basically just means a kind of simplistic caveperson-like mindset.For whatever reason, the sound "Grug" is associated with cavepeople in English. unwind|5 months ago Seems to be a reference to "The Croods" [1], a 2013 animated movie in which Nicholas Cage (!) voices the caveman Grug.[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croods Jtsummers|5 months ago Grug was a caveman character in a movie, I figured that's where the name came from. jibal|5 months ago Whenever I run into such a problem I use google (or the web search of your choice). You may not have expected it (and you won't always be this fortunate), but this immediately makes the identity, nature, and meaning of grug evident. kitd|5 months ago This is one instance where an AI might shine. Ask it to summarise the article in the style of an articulate intelligent person. wild_egg|5 months ago Grug is simply the narrator's name. He's speaking in the third person.Meant to be some generic "caveman" name/character. amiga386|5 months ago grug is grug namegrug neighbours ugg, oog, thog, thag, tragg, yog, grr, argh not use computerhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HulkSpeak arcxi|5 months ago search for a plain english translation, it's out there
ViscountPenguin|5 months ago "Grug" in this context basically just means a kind of simplistic caveperson-like mindset.For whatever reason, the sound "Grug" is associated with cavepeople in English. unwind|5 months ago Seems to be a reference to "The Croods" [1], a 2013 animated movie in which Nicholas Cage (!) voices the caveman Grug.[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croods Jtsummers|5 months ago Grug was a caveman character in a movie, I figured that's where the name came from.
unwind|5 months ago Seems to be a reference to "The Croods" [1], a 2013 animated movie in which Nicholas Cage (!) voices the caveman Grug.[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croods
Jtsummers|5 months ago Grug was a caveman character in a movie, I figured that's where the name came from.
jibal|5 months ago Whenever I run into such a problem I use google (or the web search of your choice). You may not have expected it (and you won't always be this fortunate), but this immediately makes the identity, nature, and meaning of grug evident.
kitd|5 months ago This is one instance where an AI might shine. Ask it to summarise the article in the style of an articulate intelligent person.
wild_egg|5 months ago Grug is simply the narrator's name. He's speaking in the third person.Meant to be some generic "caveman" name/character.
amiga386|5 months ago grug is grug namegrug neighbours ugg, oog, thog, thag, tragg, yog, grr, argh not use computerhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HulkSpeak
ViscountPenguin|5 months ago
For whatever reason, the sound "Grug" is associated with cavepeople in English.
unwind|5 months ago
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croods
Jtsummers|5 months ago
jibal|5 months ago
kitd|5 months ago
wild_egg|5 months ago
Meant to be some generic "caveman" name/character.
amiga386|5 months ago
grug neighbours ugg, oog, thog, thag, tragg, yog, grr, argh not use computer
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HulkSpeak
arcxi|5 months ago