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I think we're approaching "if a tree falls in the woods..." territory here.
First, I was misunderstanding what you were talking about - it seems you were talking about inherent meaning, while I was talking about communication.
However, I think I even disagree with you about inherent meaning. You may not have to say "I love you" to experience love, but all of your experiences occur within the context (!) of language. Are your thoughts linguistic? Are emotions linguistic? I think they are. Except for certain transcendent and necessarily transient experiences, pretty much everything that goes through your brain is linguistic. It's the human curse.
Take, for instance, a particular event: shooting a deer. The context is the death of an animal. Do the other deer in its herd feel grief? Outrage? Do they organize against hunters? Does the event have meaning to them? They might react out of instinct - fear at the noise of the gun, sight of one of their herd in danger. But does the context have meaning in and of itself? To a human, however, this event has meaning: food for another month, pride at having hunted and killed an animal, sadness at unnecessary death, etc. If the context has meaning in and of itself, shouldn't it have the same meaning to everyone experiencing it?
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