Warp schrieb:

>> Language, especially spoken, works like that a lot - things are dropped when 
>> they are not needed.
> 
>   Well, that was my point: In this case it *is* needed because leaving it
> out causes confusion.
> 
>   One could argue that it's a well-established expression and thus shouldn't
> cause confusion, but if I have never heard or read such an expression in my
> entire life until now, I wouldn't say it's well-established. (Granted, it
> might be well-established at a local level at some places, but one should
> understand that not everybody is from that same place.)

Spoken languages are developed for (and usually by) people natively 
speaking them, not for making it easy to understand for the rest of the 
whole wide world.

Esperanto is an exception to that.

We're not talking about a computer language, mind you.

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