Chinese lacks tense, articles, plural form, and a lot of things that are taken for granted by speakers of Indo-European languages, yet it's fairly terse. It tu

Chinese lacks tense, articles, plural form, and a lot of things that are taken for granted by speakers of Indo-European languages, yet it's fairly terse. It turns out that you can infer a lot from context. "Cat catch three mouse yesterday" is completely understandable, even though it's been stripped of tense, articles and plural form.