"...as I am sure you know, being a student of philosophy."

LOL..implying, I suppose, that disagreement would mean disavowing my own background? (Why, yes...I HAVE stopped beating my wife.)

And where is the qualification that NON "hard-core jaded cynics and devoted materialists" can also miss important distinctions?

But seriously...of course language can "be used to name or describe subjective events". We do need to communicate, and we DO have 'similar' types of subjective experiences........but although I can easily agree with the superficial import of what you say, I think YOU miss "an important distinction" that *I* try to make about the admitted basic similarity of many subjective experiences we humans share and the possible **status** of those experiences.

Just as you suggest that they 'may' have independent reality, I can easily suppose that they do not, and 'may' be merely firing of neural patterns in the brain...and quite material.
That is why we DO research...to try to figger the durn things out.