When you have to ask someone to repeat themselves three times and you still can’t figure out what they’re saying, you may as well feignderstand, or pretend to understand. It’s yet another made-up term from The Emotionary. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Feignderstand”
Grant, here’s another made-up word from Emotionary.com.
This word is feinderstand.
Pretend to understand?
Yes, to pretend you finally heard another person after asking them to repeat themselves three times.
You know how you do that?
You’re just like, oh, whatever.
Yeah, you just do a little giggle and a look and then turn away and hope you didn’t just agree to something that you don’t want to do.
Yeah, exactly.
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