Vitanuova for 2008 January

Shortest possible complete sentences

I haven't been able to find a database of the shortest complete sentences in various languages.

I'm sure about Latin "i", Portuguese "é", English "go"/"do"/"be", pretty sure of Spanish "es" (also "va", "ve", "sé", "he"(?), "ha"(?), "hé"(?)), and fairly sure of German "geh" (also "sag"/"sei"/"hol"/"übt" and possibly some other three-letter imperatives).

If Hebrew "יש" is a complete sentence, it would probably win.

Maybe I should put up a web page and solicit contributions.

Update: It's not clear to me whether the -e on the familiar German imperative should be considered obligatory (my textbook didn't use it and I found a textbook claiming it's considered optional); without it we can probably form "üb" and maybe "sä" and "öl".

Update 2: if we consider "fi" a mere interjection, the Esperanto winner will be the imperative "amu" and about 15 other possibilities.

Its own agenda

I wonder why some young people who hear that 'fish' is the same thing as 'fish' are totally unperturbed by this, while I was so disturbed to learn this fact that I never intentionally ate fish again (for more than a quarter-century so far). I learned this at almost exactly the same age as Iris did in the story linked to above and in almost precisely the same way.

Synthesis

"In Soviet Russia, all your base can has you!"