telegraphese

A successful expedient to increase the sending rate was the development of telegraphese.

The thing was disappointingly written in a kind of telegraphese which didn't make for easy reading.

These codes were telegraphese, somewhat analogous to the SMS language of today.

He writes in a television-script telegraphese: "Worked out at the club, scored at an editorial meeting.

It is newspaper telegraphese.

He talks in clipped verbless telegraphese, often limiting his utterances to a single "Ha!"

Telegraphese is used, with functions words like the, a/an, and is/are dropped, and contractions are avoided for full forms such as do not (don't).

But unlike telegraphese ( downhold expenses, instick earward ), tightness of space is not the impetus: lede is no shorter than lead .

The cruiser must have been full of people scribbling telegraphese on the backs of torn-up guidebooks, trying to condense the maximum amount of information into the minimum number of words.

Such nominal phrase word sentences occur in English as well, particularly in telegraphese or as the rôte questions that are posed to fill in form data (e.g. "Name?"

Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style or telegraphese describes a clipped way of writing that attempts to abbreviate words and pack as much information into the shortest possible number of words and or characters.

Perhaps any 'correspondence is a kind of love affair...tinged by a subtle but palpable eroticism'; while by contrast, in mobile, Twitter or Tweet, 'telegraphese was infectious', and the sign-off '"LOL!

In addition, similarly elliptical styles of writing can be traced to the days of telegraphese 120 years back, where telegraph operators were reported to use abbreviations similar to those used in modern text when chatting amongst themselves in between sending of official messages.

As it is, it is cut too much in parts-the style is rather "telegraphese," somewhat jerky-and I could very handily use a couple of thousand words of "lubrication," words put back in to make the style more graceful and readable.