Totally OT:
I do that a lot. When someone asks me who is going to do something, I
often respond with "I'm!"
-M
daniel andreasson wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure the word is "clitic". David Crystal defines it
> as "a form which resembles a word, but which cannot be used on
> its own as a normal utterance because it is structurally
> dependent on a neighbouring word in a construction. Examples
> include the contracted forms of _be_ in English (I'm, he's)
> and the pronoun _je_ in French, which must always be followed
> by a verb."