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Future Insults
(n.)
The secondhand dialect of people who let machines do their thinking, where every sentence uttered sounds like a bot.
She dismissed her boyfriend’s apology as total loopspeak: he validated her feelings, offered three actionable next steps, and asked if there was anything else he could help with.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
The -speak is from Orwell’s Newspeak, the language of 1984 pared down until forbidden thoughts became unthinkable. The loop references a machine’s feedback loop, now applied to the human who is so far indoctrinated with AI-generated language they can’t extract themselves and speak like a human anymore.
Future Words: A Non-Obvious Glossary of Terms That Don’t Exist (But Soon Will) collects all 100, each with its example sentence and coinage notes, from the bestselling authors of The Future Normal. Hardcover, October 20, 2026.