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If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.
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The speaker admits that the explanation was not clear enough for the listener to understand. Rather than blaming the listener, the sentence places responsibility on the speaker’s own choice of words: a clearer explanation would have been given if full understanding had been the aim. Its blunt conditional phrasing also leaves the speaker’s level of effort open to question.
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