Well I live in a rural part of The Netherlands and in this area we can make
sentences shorter AND longer:

two jokes about that

the first about making it longer:
question: the city with the longest name in the world 
answer: Hengelooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

example two: a language shorthand
question: how does my neigbour translate the next sentence in local dialect:
Ï am sorry sir, but can you repeat that qquestion, I did not understand you
completely:

answer; HUH?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Rowledge [mailto:tim at sumeru.stanford.edu]
> Sent: maandag 4 februari 2002 18:08
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: Toch weer antwoord: RE: Antwoord: Squeak
> Internationalization (vo orheen: Re: AW: AW: -- Whats this 
> 'AW:' mean?)
> 
> 
> Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> is claimed by the 
> authorities to have written:
> 
> > So absorbing words from elsewhere is one of the reasons 
> that English 
> > thrives (including its very forgiving grammar (or almost 
> lack of one 
> > altogether)).
> Well, _American_ English might lack a grammar :-) It is after all the
> land where no noun cannot be verbed. And where. Sentences can be. Very
> short.
> 
> tim
> -- 
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> 42.7, no, 87.3, percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
> 
>