Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.