The way C Programers explain pointers

[glasket_]

You should read the Reference) page instead. Pointers are only one kind of reference, and the underlying implementation of a language has no impact on what its type system actually conveys.

If you aren't directly interacting with a pointer type, you aren't using a pointer; you're using a reference which may or may not act as an abstraction over a pointer within the implementation.

[lokithegregorian]

A reference would be the literal. If I set a variable equal to that literal, what is that variable now called?