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The universe is eminently describable with language - thats the whole point of mathematics.
It's not: see Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems.
I am at a loss as to what they have to do with this, do you mean to say that the universe is not exhaustively describable?
Okay. Describe a flower using mathematics. It better entail every detail of the flower and all of its virtues.
Oh you seem fun. The vast body of mathematics describes flowers, from growth patterns to genetic structure to the effect it has on human neurology when observing the patterns made by them. However I am curious; please explain what a virtue is!