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cog

English translation: realize, find out

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English term or phrase:cog
Selected answer:realize, find out
Entered by: Ametista

11:29 May 21, 2008
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Slang / american novel
English term or phrase: cog
What does cog mean in this sentence?

Do you want to come in out of the dark and cog all that's happening?

From a popnews tv program.

Thanks for your help!
Ametista
Ireland
Local time: 22:41
realize, find out
Explanation:
I don't really know, but I think it is a short form of some work like cognizance, cognitive, recognize, so means come in out of the dark and find out what's really going on.
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:41
Grading comment
Thank you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +2understand/comprehend
Max Nuijens
3find out about/discover
David Hollywood
1 +1realize, find out
Jack Doughty
1cog as in blog for the sake of anonymity
Mihaela Ghiuzeli


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
find out about/discover


Explanation:
I would say ...

David Hollywood
Local time: 18:41
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +1
realize, find out


Explanation:
I don't really know, but I think it is a short form of some work like cognizance, cognitive, recognize, so means come in out of the dark and find out what's really going on.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:41
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gary D
16 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
understand/comprehend


Explanation:
out of the dark, into the light of understanding or comprehension

when light is being shed on something, it is made to be understood or made comprehensible

Max Nuijens
Netherlands
Local time: 23:41
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gary D
16 hrs
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agree  Phong Le
1 day 15 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
cog as in blog for the sake of anonymity


Explanation:
I just found a weblog named "clog"in which one of the bloggers explains that she "clogs" since she doesn't want her identity to be disclosed. So I am taking a chance here. "Clog" seems to be an offshoot of "blog". It's just a wild guess at this point.
Second, I write as an anonymous cog because I am larger than life, mythic even. (And not mythic because I don’t actually exist. The other kind.) At least on this blog, I stand for experiences greater than myself, if not quite universal. Rather than seeing myself as just a chick who writes personal things here, I prefer to present myself as a cog chugging away in the great academic-industrial complex. For I have come to see that (coggishness? coggery?) as my fundamental position in academia, and I wish to explore how the cog, as a facet of academic labor, works.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-05-21 13:48:27 GMT)
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http://academiccog.blogspot.com/

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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-05-21 14:18:34 GMT)
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2) it might be a reference to a very famous Honda commercial aired in Australia in which there was no trick photography, so I venture another explanation " cog= say it as it is, be honest".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(television_commercial)

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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-05-21 14:21:12 GMT)
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6006084025483872237

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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-05-21 14:49:49 GMT)
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Sorry for the typo. It's "cog" not "clog"

Mihaela Ghiuzeli
Local time: 17:41
Native speaker of: Romanian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Max Nuijens: cloak(ed) + blog = clog? nice.
14 mins
  -> Max, it's just a wild guess as I already said. It might be the new "internet speak".
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