Positive Thinking

Remember back when you were in elementary school and the one true thing you wanted to know more than anything after a teacher assigned any piece of work was...

Does this need to be in complete sentences?

The worst, right?  Welcome to Portuguese.

You can't answer my opening question with a simple "yes."  The verb must be involved in all cases affirmative.  Você se lembra? (Do you remember?) is then answered Sim, me lembro. (Yes, I remember.)

It's like every fourth grader's worst nightmare realized: you must answer in complete sentences FOREVER.

Except for the negative.  Then you can just say no.  

Você gosta?  

Não.