just because we have words we're better off than all those animals that don't

You'll be happy to know that at least one philosopher does not think that language has anything to do with communication. His is a thin book, but I always lose steam halfway through when I try to read it. It helps that he's pretty arrogant and teaches German at UC Santa Cruz. "Lick the magic banana slug!"

And they still can't past those inconvenient little stumbling blocks like "This sentence is false."

At least old Gödel tried to address that one.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.