When I was younger, like in the 8-12 age range, I did not understand why the tv show Star Trek was popular. They used a bunch of words that made no sense to me, and it was heavy on dialogue. My older brother and his friend watched the show religiously. When they would turn it on, I would get bored and leave to do something else. When I got older, I watched the movies and actually enjoyed them. So why did I dislike them as a child? I wasn't old enough to understand the jargon and background for the series.
A quote by Michel de Montaigne perfectly illustrates the relationship between a speaker and their audience. He said, "Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener." This takes discernment. I'm sure you have witnessed a conversation between two parties that could not understand each other, but you could understand them both perfectly. Why is that? Is it because the speak and listener have different backgrounds? Maybe they have different experience levels with the subject they are speaking about.
I work as a real estate appraiser. I remember the first class I took to get educated as an appraiser was USPAP or United Standards of Professional Appraiser practice. It was a horrible decision to take this class first. It was a class about the many different rules and regulations of appraising. I didn't have any depth of understanding of appraising, let alone the different laws and statutes for appraising. It felt like I was listening to the teacher in the comic "Peanuts" by Charles Shultz. "Wah, wah wah wah wah wah." That's what I was hearing.
Discern you audience's level of understanding and adapt. That is a key part of communicating with others. A key part of your discernment is listening to how the audience responds or doesn't respond. Be as good of a listener as you want to be as a speaker.
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