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telegraphese
telegraphese colloq. or humorous. (ˌtɛlɪgrɑːˈfiːz, -æ-) [f. telegraph n. + -ese.] 1. The concise and elliptical style in which telegrams are worded. Also attrib. or as adj.1885 Pall Mall G. 26 Sept. 2/2 We shall gradually give up English in favour of Telegraphese, and Electric Telegraphese is as sho... Oxford English Dictionary
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telegraphese
telegraphese/ˌtelɪgrəˈfi:z; ˌtɛləɡræ`fiz/ n[U]shortenedstyle of language used in telegrams, leaving out all unnecessary words 电报文体（省略非必要字句者）. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Telegram style
Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the Telegraphic coded expressions Through the history of telegraphy, very many dictionaries of telegraphese, codes or ciphers were developed, each serving wikipedia.org
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Clement Egerton
Shu might supplied a rough translation, Hegel conjectures, which might explain Egerton's comment that the style of the novel was "telegraphese," which wikipedia.org
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telegram
telegram, n. (ˈtɛlɪgræm) [f. Gr. τῆλε tele- + -gram; so F. télégramme (1867 in Littré), Ger. telegramm (1865 in Sanders).] A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch or communication. Also transf. and fig. (This term encountered at first much opposition from scholars, as not being formed on... Oxford English Dictionary
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Operating signals
Morse code abbreviations Telegraphese External links Nonsecret Code: An Overview of Early Telegraph Codes References wikipedia.org
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What does Agatha Christie mean with "in a telegraphic style"? Bold part of this passage from _The Mysterious Affair at Styles_. > Miss Howard shook hands with a hearty, almost painful, grip. I had an impression of ve...
. < > Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style or telegraphese[1] is a clipped way of writing that attempts to abbreviate words and pack as
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Brevity code
Used by amateur radio operators, shortwave listeners Morse code abbreviations Telegraphese List of HTTP status codes External links Brevity codes wikipedia.org
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Barnum
Barnum (ˈbɑːnəm) [The name of Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–91), a pushing American show-proprietor.] 1. Humbug, nonsense; showmanship.1856 G. D. Brewerton War in Kansas 17 He believed the whole affair to be a ‘Barnum’—alias humbug, of the most unmitigated kind. a 1914 Joyce Stephen Hero (1944) xxi. 1... Oxford English Dictionary
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Commercial code (communications)
, send my dress clothes here See also Brevity code Australian railway telegraphic codes Great Western Railway telegraphic codes Telegraph code Telegraphese wikipedia.org
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urgent
urgent, a. (ˈɜːdʒənt) [a. F. urgent (14th c.), a. L. urgent-, urgens, pres. pple. of urgēre to urge. Cf. It., Sp., Pg. urgente.] I. 1. Pressing, impelling; demanding or calling for prompt action; marked or characterized by urgency. (Freq. from c 1800.) In earliest use with cause or necessity.1496 Ro... Oxford English Dictionary
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SMS language
Similar elliptical styles of writing can be traced to the days of telegraphese 120 years back, when telegraph operators were reported to use abbreviations wikipedia.org
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James Ellroy
He often employs a sort of telegraphese (stripped-down, staccato-like sentence structures), a style that reaches its apex in The Cold Six Thousand. wikipedia.org
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soon
▪ I. soon, adv. (suːn) Forms: (see below). [OE. sóna, = OS. sâno, sâna, commonly sân (MLG. sân), OFris. sôn, sân, OHG. (and MHG.) sân, MFlem. saen (WFlem. zaen, zaan); not represented in Scand., and now obs. in most of the Continental dialects. As OE. sóna had the sense of ‘at once, immediately’, it... Oxford English Dictionary
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Staying On
He talks in clipped verbless telegraphese, often limiting his utterances to a single "Ha!". wikipedia.org
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