I'm not going to pretend I understand.

If you borrowed word and “acting like one understands” to a phenomenon, the development of your thinking about the phenomenon stops there.

Why is this so? - pretending to understand to trick themselves into thinking that the phenomenon has been explained in words.

• But that “word” is “floating in the midair” and “of rootless grass” and “poorly linked to other words,” so there is no development from putting it into words.

Maybe the words should be, “I don’t know yet” or “I’m not sure how to put it into words.”

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