telegraphese

And telegraphese is not good for the development of a prose style.

The Canadian Foreign Service as a Career 1964

Morgenson and Rosner write with heart-pounding urgency and a kind of adjectival telegraphese where Tim Geithner becomes the "relaxed regulator" and Mozilo "the hotheaded butcher's son."

Robert Teitelman: Morgenson and Rosner's "Reckless Endangerment" Robert Teitelman 2011

Morgenson and Rosner write with heart-pounding urgency and a kind of adjectival telegraphese where Tim Geithner becomes the "relaxed regulator" and Mozilo "the hotheaded butcher's son."

Robert Teitelman: Morgenson and Rosner's "Reckless Endangerment" Robert Teitelman 2011

During the 1924 murder trial of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago Tribune publisher Col. Robert McCormack cabled Freud with an offer of $25,000 or, as he put it in telegraphese, “anything he name,” to come to Chicago and psychoanalyze the killers.

One Hundred Years of Freud in America 2009

During the 1924 murder trial of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago Tribune publisher Col. Robert McCormack cabled Freud with an offer of $25,000 or, as he put it in telegraphese, "anything he name," to come to Chicago and psychoanalyze the killers.

Freudian America 2009

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."

On me, me, me DC 2007

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!

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

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.

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

This simple story was told in very touching and beautiful language, by no means telegraphese, and Barty and I were deeply affected by it.

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

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.

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