“What is a lingo-futurist?,” you ask?

It is a fictional expert who makes predictions
about the pragmatics and shifts in social connotations of a word.

Here is one such prediction by a foremost lingo-futurist:

“2023 will be the year where ‘understand’ will be one of the most contested words.

No longer will ‘understand’ be understood with understanding as once one understood.

Moreover, ‘I don’t understand’ will increasingly —for humans— mean ‘I disapprove’ or, for non-human human artifacts, ‘the necessary data was absent from my training data.’

‘Understand’, as wine during recession, will become watered-down making not wine out of water yet, water out of wine, while hyping the former as the latter.

All is well, all is fine wine, you understand?”

—animasuri’23