Often it is pointed out that a word gets used with a verb attached to it... awareness knows, awareness recognizes, awareness resists... and treat that as proof a subject has quietly snuck back in through the grammar... It sounds sharp, deep, but it's just more words disclaiming words.
A sentence needs a subject slot filled... that's just how English works. "It's raining" doesn't mean there's a mysterious "it" out there doing some raining. "Awareness knows" doesn't mean a self has been smuggled into the word "awareness" the moment a verb gets attached to it. Grammar requiring a subject shaped word is a fact about sentence structure, not a discovery about what's actually there. Treating the two as the same thing is the real sleight of hand.
Calling something a pointer, or shorthand, was never a claim that no experience is happening. It's a plain admission that any word... awareness, mind, consciousness, self, is a finger pointing at something, not the thing itself, and every finger looks a little like a hand grabbing something once it's placed into a sentence with a verb. That's not evidence of a hidden character. It's just what sentences look like.
So the real question isn't when a label hardens into an entity just by being used in normal speech. The real question is simpler... is there an actual subject to be found, independent of the sentence describing it? Look, and there isn't one... not because the search failed, but because grammar was never a reliable place to look for it in the first place. Pointing at verb conjugation and calling it proof of a self may sound clever, it isn't the same as looking.
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