Timeline for The feeling when someone doesn't understand your meaning no matter how many different ways you explain it
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| Feb 10, 2017 at 15:38 | history | edited | Dan Bron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
questions can only ask for answers that experts in English can supply; non-English answers are off-topic
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| Feb 9, 2017 at 0:00 | comment | added | deadrat | @David Just for the record, I'm not offended by your use here of the acronyms SE and ELU. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 23:57 | comment | added | deadrat | @David Just to be clear, I'm as annoyed by text-speak as you, but its use extends beyond teenagers and ghettos (And where did that last come from?). ELU is not public speaking, and if there are rules for public speaking, I'm pretty sure the injunction to abjure acronyms isn't one of them. It's the custom of one generation to contemn the music and the literacy of the next generation. I'm sure that shortly after Sumerian accountants invented writing over 5 millennia ago, they took stylus to wet clay to complain about the state to which the youngsters had brought cuneiform. It still pointless. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 23:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/829473796746833920 | ||
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:55 | comment | added | Peter | The following is not an answer to the word you are asking about, but it struck me as related and I thought you might appreciate my sharing it. It is a disorder rather than an emotion, and describes inarticulateness rather than another person's inability to apprehend one's meaning. Alexithymia: "is a personality construct characterized by the subclinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the self." See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:40 | comment | added | jimm101 | @David Example sentence: "TFW you think everyone will know the abbreviations from your high school, but really you and only two friends do, and one of them is faking it." | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:24 | comment | added | ab2 | @Hellion et al: Just for the record (JFTR), I posted my answer before seeing your answer, and as for the comments, either I didn't see them or they did not register. :) | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:13 | answer | added | ab2 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:11 | comment | added | Hellion | @hotlicks and 1006a just for the record, I posted my answer before seeing either of your comments. :-) | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:10 | answer | added | Hellion | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:08 | comment | added | 1006a | @HotLicks that should be an answer. Here's a definition: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/like_talking_to_a_wall#English (I would say "like talking to a brick wall" which is apparently a variant.) | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:02 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It's like talking to a wall. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 21:01 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | Stymied, a form of being frustrated or blocked by one's efforts. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 20:55 | answer | added | Graffito | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Feb 8, 2017 at 20:42 | history | suggested | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
replaced abbreviation TFW as unnecessary and not universally understood.
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| Feb 8, 2017 at 20:35 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 8, 2017 at 20:31 | comment | added | David | @deadrat — It may be annoying to you but what I can do is explain that SE-EL&U is not designed to be teenage American ghetto. The first rule of communication in public speaking is never to use acronyms. If you do you confuse or insult your listener. If you or the poster don't understand that I'm doing you and SE a favour by explaining it. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 20:23 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I would say "WTF". | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 19:38 | comment | added | David | What does TFA stand for? It is really bad practice to use non-standard abbreviations in titles and lazy not to define them in the text of a non-specialized site like this. For example, I am a highly educated native English speaker and I have no idea what you are writing about. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | TsSkTo | Disillusioned - disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed. google.com/#q=disillusioned | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 19:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 8, 2017 at 19:21 | comment | added | vpn | When you say that feel when, do you mean from the perspective of the person who is explaining, or the person who is listening? | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 19:05 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 8, 2017 at 19:05 | history | asked | user3159063 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |