Sure, you use signs (words, pictures, etc.) to attempt to communicate some meaning to someone or someone else. You have chosen these signs based on the meaning you assign to them.
Your listener(s) receive a certain amount of the signs you have given, but not necessarily all the them, because select the signs that have meaning for them, organize it according to their personal schemata, then assign meaning to the signs that you transmit to them. You ask them if they understand. They nod (give a sign of understanding). You interpret that sign as meaning that they understand your meaning.
You explain back to you what they understand. They give you signs. You interpret those signs, according to your personal schemata. You decide either that, 1) they understand, 2) or they don't. If you are not satisfied that they understand (share your meanings that you have assigned to the signs), You may take away some signs (simplify) or add more (clarify).
This cycle continues until you are satisfied that your meanings have been transmitted, or you give up, walking away, shaking your head and mumbling.
There is no objective way to verify any of this.
Nothing is happening here.
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