telegraphese

noun

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Etymology: From telegraph + -ese.

The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this.
“Vythilingam said: "Injection every day. Perhaps all right then." Anstruther had not been long in Malaya. He attributed this wog's clipped telegraphese to the shyness of one who meets socially a racial superior.”
“Despite the new gadgetry, these journalists are actually rediscovering telegraphese — the clipped (ideally witty) style that flourished because of word limits imposed by an earlier technology, the telegraph.”