Re: Ellipsis (was: Re: Italian Particles)

John Cowan wrote:
> Are quite intelligible, yes,
Depends on the context.  I volunteered at a nursing home one year,
inputting records, nurses' notes, things like that, and subject-less
sentences were quite common.  My grandmother uses that a lot in her
writing as well, being a retired nurse.

> IMHO borrowing from Yiddish.  Another possible borrowing: use of "a fruit"
> for native form "a piece of fruit".  "Have a fruit" now good English,
> but a century ago ungrammatical.
Not in my dialect.  "Have some fruit" or "Have a [kind of fruit]"

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