cat snow moose cloudy? Something Musk-loudy? I strained both of my lateral thinking neurons long enough to give up without shame.
I guess the higher fidelity of emoji communication depends mostly on context :-) Adopted a feral cat a week ago. Domesticating animals is a very weird thing we do as a species. It feels rewarding to earn trust. It is basically a conspiracy theorist's nightmare, though; capture them in a cage, put a chip in them, and cut them open to end their ability to reproduce. We are the aliens. It's still snowing. Getting used to a half-year winter is difficult. Despite that, some buds are starting to appear. A mother-daughter moose pair keep hanging around nibbling them off the tree branches. Somehow the days have already gone from no sunrise to nearly 16 hours of daylight. Looking forward to summer.
Jared Diamond spent a big chunk of time on "taming" vs. "domesticating" where "taming" is taking a wild animal and making it not hate you, while "domesticating" is taking a wild animal and making its children's children's children not hate you. The Egyptians tamed cheetahs but never domesticated them; he pointed out that dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years while foxes have met only limited success and that only recently. Michael Pollan would probably argue that cats domesticated us rather than the other way 'round, since he argued that the dominant species on earth is maize and we've stopped at nothing to ensure its spread around the world. Cats do a lot less to earn their keep than corn does.