Quite true. Still, a telling line in the article mentions "(I
   got to live in Budapest last summer and I swear that Hungarian
   does have weirdnesses, it just hides them other places.) "

   and it reminded me of other aspects of communication, such as
   body language, culture and the like.

   In short, I don't think words are enough to entirely encode
   meaning, although they do a very excellent job of most of it.

   I have some slight misgivings regarding Chomsky's ideas but
   there's not much alternative, as hard as George Lakoff may have
   been trying, but overall, it's not bad. [I'm biased, as I'm a
   Lakoff fan]