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I largely agree with this, but I would go as far to say that we don't even need to make a commitment to some idea of interiority or internal representation to assert a fundamental distinction here: what is important is that the two interlocutors share something like a common world or context, and endeavor within this space to do things together (such as communicate). There is no "gap" or latency between what-is-said and what-is-meant, there is just everywhere instances of language attempting to point outside itself, when it really can't do that.

And, imo, this very tendency in our use of language is probably what makes us distinctly human.

http://sackett.net/WittgensteinEthics.pdf