Re: Hi all!! I'm a newcomer.

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:


> Yeah, but I was emphasising conciseness.  I've found that a simple
> sentence - verb, subject, and object, can't really be expressed with
> less than three syllables.
Tell that to the French: _je t'aime_ is two syllables, and I seem to recall that
the schwa may drop in speech.

Of course, using pronominal arguments is kinda cheating, since you get alot less
of them than of nominal ones.

                                              Andreas