And telegraphese is not good for the development of a prose style. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Foreign Service as a Career] Reference
Would this be an appropriate moment to draw to your attention the interesting case of postcardese, a derivative of telegraphese perhaps: "Having a lovely time, wish you were here.". From Wordnik.com. [On me, me, me] Reference
This simple story was told in very touching and beautiful language, by no means telegraphese, and Barty and I were deeply affected by it. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
Also, this is quite a new trade for me, who have only dealt hitherto in foreign wines, and British party politics, and bimetallism -- and can only write in telegraphese!. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
The index note for him is blackly comic as it tells in telegraphese the story of the Great Mind that could not make itself up - "impressed then disillusioned by Mussolini, 554, 556". From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
The voices are ostensibly cutting down on the "waste paper" of getting from A to Zee, but look again at this aphoristic shorthand, this proverbial telegraphese - it says nothing, and then it just gets a whole lot worse, saying the nothing that is being said. From Wordnik.com. [Comments for RealityStudio] Reference
Oh! may some kindly light, born of a life's devotion and the happy memories of half a century, lead me to mere naturalness and the use of simple homely words, even my own native telegraphese! that I may haply blunder at length into some fit form of expression which Barty himself might have approved. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
Her solution: an obtrusive — and therefore "literary" — telegraphese: "Made a show of taking Quoyle back as a special favor. From Wordnik.com. [A Reader's Manifesto] Reference
"telegraphese.". From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference
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