The assertion "When I speak, I generate meaning" warrants a response more probing than simply "How do you know?" The real challenge lies in the standpoint underpinning this claim: What epistemological privilege allows you to observe that process, detect the outcome, acquire the insight, grasp that fact? Where is the picture that feeds that claim (even pure mathematics feeds on pictures)?

Has anyone ever doubted that speech is meaningful? And if it is meaningful eo ipso (by that very act), how can one assert this is so, much less aspire to make it so?

The road is bumpy, but we proceed.