“Are you cold?”
“I’m”
“Have you showered?”
“I’ve”
“Is it raining?”
“It’s”
“Am I ugly?”
“You’re”
You get the gist. Why is it so weird to say these instead of “I am, I have, It is, You are”?
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I believe the point of a contraction in English is to quicken the time spent saying a sentence. “You’re very cool”, is quicker than saying “you are very cool”. So given that explanation, perhaps the sound of hearing a contraction on its own sounds weird because there is no follow up sentence, hence giving the contraction no purpose to begin with. Or maybe I’m wrong, dunno 🤷♀️
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