Humanity's first written languages were likely rock and cave art pic-tograms and hieroglyphics, eventually to be replaced by far more practical phonetic alphabets. In this age of smart-phones, we note the ironic resurgence of pictographs given the wild popularity of emojis, emerging in 1990s Japan to circumvent cell phone bandwidth limitations. Or a case can be made that the emoji's origin dates to the wildly successful 1970s marketing campaign: I New York. Then again, maybe the clouds have actually been talking to us with their own version of emojis for countless eons? Cloud lovers soon learn to decode the language of waves, ripples, curls, streaks, wisps, turrets, pouches, veils, and numerous other tell-tail markers to understand and identify our friends in the sky above.
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