The Limits

The limits of language.  The ability of language to convey certain messages is all really an interpretation. Forewarning, in this post I might get a little loopy and lost in a theoretical mess.  The purpose of language is to communicate and get across an expression of something.  Now, how close can we be to this true expression ("thing" we are trying to communicate)? The written language is subject to so many interpretations: are we really getting across what we are trying to capture in that one sentence, in that paragraph, in that book?  As a writer, I have always thought about the limits of language.  Next question: the power of words. To convey that perfect thought, feeling, emotion, you need the perfect word.  Vocabulary is a writer's best friend.  BUT, even with this tool, there are so many imbued meanings to words and what they imply.  The meaning of words are constantly changing....And hypothetically speaking let's say these words conveyed exactly what we meant, what does the string of words (in the sentence) mean?  Is this the most accurate way to convey a message, a sequential-ized order of words? For example, let's say we see an event unfold before our eyes...perhaps a baseball game.  Now, to put this ALL into words would be impossible. All the senses that go into that memory, cannot be smoothed into diction.  Maybe I like writing because of this gap.  The closer language gets to closing the gap between what is a tangible event/feeling and what is not (words), the closer that writing becomes an existential art form.