Heres a little experiment you might find interesting. Will you give it a try?

Question

Try cutting out all unnecessary words in your conversations.
We have to it in Thailand to make ourselves understood.
But I have grown to see the benefit of it. Saves a lot of breath!
eg not " Are you ready to eat now" but simply " Hungry?" etc.
Please don't answer the question until you have tried it for at least half a day.

Oooops left out 'do'.

Answer 1

Indubitably the verbosity of modern interactive communication is overloaded with circumlocution that could be abbreviated and transmuted to a major shortening of the content of the exchanges to achieve a more concise and cogent understanding of the narratives involved.
In short KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

Answer 2

Clarifying speech simply by cutting out most of the words does the opposite of what is intended. Instead, you could aim for conciseness by eliminating nominalisations and making verbs work harder. I mention this because I'm just starting an online course in writing. I would pride myself on having a wide ranging and active vocabulary, not my ability to communicate a whole novel in a few grunts. Though that latter trick, would be an art in itself.

A nominalisation is a process word frozen in time. The process of nominalisation turns verbs (actions or events) into nouns (things, concepts or people).Communication, government instead of communicating, governing. Can turn a normal read into a dull one.

Answer 3

No matter if you are in Thailand or in any other country - there are lots of people who speak in monotone and monosyllable, and speak use one-word questions or answers. You can also see dozens of them here.
Sure I will give it a try, this is your question, NOT "Have you tried speaking in one-word dialogues for half a day?" I answered your question now because by the time I have done it - you will have chosen a best answer.

Answer 4

Have you ever read the book '1984'? A large portion of that book deals with 'double-speak' and a entire section of government dedicated to the destruction and reclassification of words to do the same thing you're talking about. That's definitely one way to dumb down society more than it already is. You keep saving breath and I'll revel in my vocabulary, thank you very much.

Answer 5

Very interesting indeed. My problem is that that is the way I speak all day long. I have little kids and we are often communicating with one or two words for simplicity. It might be saving my breath but it's sure mushing up my brain! Oh for some lexically and syntactically rich discourse!!

Answer 6

Yes I agree it would save on breath and also cut out all those unnecessary words we all tend to use .

However i would sound like a toddler with a limited vocabulary it just would not work in my everyday life.Saying all that toddlers do tend to get what they ask for so if it works for them maybe i should give it a go. :)
Also if we could not use please and thank you one worded answers would sometimes sound rude .

Answer 7

Funnily enough i don't stop breathing when i stop talking so i didn't save any breath, a good job really because dumb people would suffocate if your saving breath theory was valid.

Answer 8

I'm saving my breath by NOT trying it!!! SteveT has a valid point about the Asker's error.

Answer 9

sorry .. can't do it, what will I save my breath for.
Breathing is exercise for the lungs and I'll enjoy everyone of them wasted or not till they're all gone.

Answer 10

Yeah, saves one's breath.