Talk:Telegraphese

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[edit] telegraphese

This article is misleading. Telegraphese is a linguistics term that generally describes a "telegraphic" style of verbal and written expression, full of ellipses (dropped function words).

Coded telegraphic messages, which might, when translated into English, read like quite normal expressions, do NOT constitute "telegraphese" as commonly understood.

Being the author of the cited URL on telegraphic message practice, I am concerned to find this error and to be unwittingly associated with it. I have written about telegraphese as described by linguists, versus the way messages might be and were compressed by use of telegraphic codes. A related term, "cablese", described the style of press messages sent uncoded by highly condensed in a Hemingway-style of writing, over submarine cables.

I hope a linguist will correct this erroneous article, or "stub," as I see it called here. I am certainly not qualified.