Telegram style
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Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters.
President Ho Chi Minh to President Truman, 1946.
Telegram of 21 June 1916 from David Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, to Joseph Watson, Chairman of Barnbow Amatol shell-filling factory.
A telegram from 7 September 1896 to report positions of two comets was encoded for data integrity.
SMS language
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Short Message Service language or textese is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet-base
Telegram style
…style was the precursor to the abbreviated language used in text messaging or short message standard (SMS) services such as Twitter, referred to as SMS language For telegrams, space was at a premium—economically speaking—and abbreviations were used as necessity. This motivation was revived for compressing…
French comic featuring SMS language. The child's speech (in full French spelling, "Mais c'est vrai ! T'es quoi, un nazi ?", translated as "But it's true! What are you, a Nazi?") is written in French SMS abbreviations.