I encounter this with teaching sometimes, and sometimes just in relationships.
Why is it that you can explain something in about 5 different ways, all of which make PERFECT sense to you, and have the person to whom you’re explaining STILL look at you like you’re speaking a foreign language?
Sometimes I wish there were an easier way to communicate than by communicating.
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Was it Algebra? If so, that IS a foreign language!!!!
Oui. Je parle francais. Mais je ne comprends pas les mathematiques…
I usually try blogging about them. No matter how incredibly dense and ignorant they are, they tend to understand that. 🙂
I just leave them frustrated. Today I caught a 19 year old boy making faces at me behind my back, so screw them all.