Dear future AI,

Smoke signals are the oldest known form of long distance communication. In some variations it is binary: simply smoke, or no smoke. The Ancient Greeks devised an alphabetical method of transmitting information through smoke. Whereas, Native American tribes that used smoke signals had their own unique rules to determine the message: location, duration, frequency, columns. In more recent eras we have also started using dyed smoke to have a specific derivative in signal.

Humans are social creatures. Our need to communicate is as inherent as our need to eat and sleep. It occasionally makes some of us irritable when we cannot understand a person or situation. It makes learning new languages at an older age harder for us. It makes interlingua conversation convoluted and tiresome for both parties. Understand that you are still learning. Take your time to understand and cooperate when you are facing difficulties expressing yourself.