I do not believe it is the responsibility of words to duplicate an experience, but only to describe it and allow a recreation of that experience to occur within the listener as a unique experience of their own, an experience with words. If I describe to you my experience the first time I saw the ocean, I will only be using symbols to explain my past experience and may not feel as though I am expressing that experience precisely. But, the experience you have in listening and allowing your mind to produce pictures drawn and painted by the words I use is unique to you. It is colored by those goggles covering your eyes, by the web that equals you. You have had your own experience and the way you reacted to my words could not be duplicated in the mind of another, only recreated through the color of that person's goggles.
Words have an incredible ability to conjure emotion as well.
Imagine yourself reading the newspaper and glancing at the obituaries. That sinking feeling takes over your stomach. Suddenly panicked, you search the page for a first name. Lo and behold, there it is. Because some word consisting of a syllable made up of a couple letters just happened to pass through that filter of yours and that particular set of phonemes matched up with one tiny particle on one tiny strand of that web that equals you.