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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this..
Vythilingam said: "Injection every day. Perhaps all right then." Anstruther had not been long in Malaya. He attributed this wog's clipped telegraphese to the shyness of one who meets socially a racial superior.
Despite the new gadgetry, these journalists are actually rediscovering telegraphese — the clipped (ideally witty) style that flourished because of word limits imposed by an earlier technology, the telegraph.
Use telegraphese when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Telegraphese means The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this..
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Vythilingam said: "Injection every day. Perhaps all right then." Anstruther had not been long in Malaya. He attributed this wog's clipped telegraphese to the shyness of one who meets socially a racial superior.
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