And telegraphese is not good for the development of a prose style. ❋ Unknown (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 (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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." ❋ DC (2007)
This simple story was told in very touching and beautiful language, by no means telegraphese, and Barty and I were deeply affected by it. ❋ George Du Maurier (1865)
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! ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Wal (2010)
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"; ❋ Unknown (2008)
My life is so full of Barty Josselin that I can hardly be said to have ever had an existence apart from his; and I can think of no easier or better way to tell Barty's history than just telling my own -- from the days I first knew him -- and in my own way; that is, in the best telegraphese I can manage -- picking each precious word with care, just as though I were going to cable it, as soon as written, to Boston or New York, where the love of Barty Josselin shines with even a brighter and warmer glow than here, or even in France; and where the hate of him, the hideous, odious odium theologicum -- the ❋ George Du Maurier (1865)
Her solution: an obtrusive — and therefore "literary" — telegraphese: "Made a show of taking Quoyle back as a special favor. ❋ Unknown (2001)
