to fail to convey in the sense of communicating and being understood by and thereby passing on an apparently new concept to another understanding-capable one in at least, approximately, 1~9 short words or synonyms for the concept or meta-concept of the concept itself
"i'm trying to think of a shorter way to convey the meaning behind the meta meaning of the word, but here's the thing you see...emetamemetactilism is defined by the words other people speak and change, as long as it stays within a certain range"
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"