There is a useful lesson here: most people don’t use words to mean anything other than what they believe they are describing. Trivial to him means it doesn’t ta

There is a useful lesson here: most people don’t use words to mean anything other than what they believe they are describing. Trivial to him means it doesn’t take a lot of time, which is how he uses the word, in the context of time. Now, he’s unaware that he’s wrong and he is also unaware that his misuse of the word means his explanation is irrelevant to anyone who doesn’t already understand him! In effect, he says nothing and you respond with confusion asking why you needed to understand what he didn’t! (People are very very good with pretending at intelligence and bad at the practice of it)