Is there anything that explained in layman's terms, degrades what you're trying to explain?

Certain vocabulary or jargon that is sometimes necessary. It seems sometimes when you try using laymen's terms to explain something to someone, is doesn't get the whole message across and causes pervasive misconceptions.

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puck61

It would hard to explain Plato's cave allegory to Bubba Ray down the street, I guess.

puck61

It would be interesting to try though.....
"Man! You ain't seein what's really there! You just seein what folks have told you what's there. The real truth ain't what you've had whooped into ya and finally took to. You gotta look around and start piecing things together till you can see more than just your shadow, and maybe see that thing that's casting that shadow. You follow me, Bubba?"