This post is from one of my favorite blogs 13.7, named for an estimate of the age of the universe. The excerpt below resonated with me. I do think that the role of language as representational falls short. My own sense of the role of language is closer to that of Humberto Maturana, and his description of language and the coordination of action.

Amplify’d from www.npr.org

To perceive or cognize the world at all is to be sensitive the way patterns of variation allow for invariance to show up for us. We achieve access to that which is invariant (the color, the word) not because we are blind to variation, but because we are so fluent in our mastery of variation that we can let it recede for us and rest in the background. And this fluent mastery of ever-present variation — the Variation Effect — is the hallmark of understanding. Read more at www.npr.org