You Get it or You Don't

d|p recently watched Supernatural.  The whole series to date.  Twice.  I watched it like once and a quarter.*

There's one thing about that show that I really wish I could take with me into the wider world and it is one of the slightly overused dialogue cues.  I'm not sure if this is intentional (I'm pretty sure), but almost all of the characters, usually one per episode will say "I get it" when the really don't get it.  Or they sort of maybe a little bit get it but don't understand shit.  This phenomenon is something that, so far as I can tell, is 100% reliable.  Someone says "I get it" and they don't.

So now I have learned to use this phrase, and to listen to it.  And when I use it, I check myself to see if I understand or I just Winchester-Get-It.  It's pretty reliable in the field.

I would really like to have a reliable way of saying that you or I or someone else just Winchester-Gets-It (even if it has to do double duty as "thinks they understand but doesn't" or "understands but at a really shallow-ass level that might as well be not understanding at all" without having to explain all that to Supernatural non-fans.  Because English doesn't have non-binary ways of talking about understanding.


*Destiel, for the record.