“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 think it sounds wrong to us to use more than one “shortcut” in a single sentence. Contractions are a verbal shortcut, but so is leaving a word implied, such as in your first example. When you reply to “Are you cold?” with “I’m”, you’re saying “I am (cold)”. You’re using two shortcuts there.
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