telegraphesen.adj.

1870 Birmingham Daily Post 10 Sept. 5/3 We are told in bombastic language of ‘the stern ring of fire and steel’... In sentences like these, and much more ‘Telegraphese’ of the same sort, it is assumed that Paris is to be presently closed in.

1889 Universal Rev. Oct. 215 The man who writes for the Telegraph must write Telegraphese.

1892 Leisure Hour May 455/2 The elaborate, rounded, allusive style which has gone down to fame as Telegraphese.

1915 Guardian 18 June 5/4 It will be long before the glory of ‘Telegraphese’ departs from the descriptive columns.

1952 H. Herd March of Journalism x. 164 The now vanished style of writing which his contemporaries called ‘Telegraphese’.

2009 L. Brake & M. Demoor Dict. 19th-cent. Journalism 554/2 His ‘Telegraphese’ was representative of the philistinism of the middle class.

1885 Glasgow Herald 26 May 4/4 Cheap telegrams will no doubt spread alarmingly the use of ‘telegraphese’.

1905 Athenæum 7 Oct. 469/2 We rather relish the leisurely semicolons and sentences of the eighteenth century after..the ‘telegraphese’ of many a modern stylist.

1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) iii. 91 I could fill as much space again, and more..but now all rambling disquisition is over, I promise I will write abrupt telegraphese.

2011 J. Gleick Information v. 152 Short messages saved money... Telegraphic and telegraphese described the new way of writing. Flowers of rhetoric cost too much.

1881 Western Mail 20 Mar. 2/9 The Daily Telegraph yesterday published one of its characteristic leaders..in that familiar ‘Telegraphese’ style which is unapproachable.

1895 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 19 Oct. 5/8 The ‘Telegraphese’ style of Sir Edward Lawson's letter..might have been borne with as inevitable.

1901 Times of India 31 Aug. 6 ‘The young lions of Peterborough Court’, the phrase in which Arnold immortalized the invention of the ‘Telegraphese’ style.

1927 J. F. Muirhead tr. C. Spitteler Laughing Truths 218 Thus arose (e.g.) in the theatre the custom of cutting short the speeches as much as possible by the use of the infamous telegraphese style.

1951 R. Hoggart Auden i. 18 Auden's ‘telegraphese’ style..is distinguished by its omission of articles, relatives, connectives, personal, demonstrative and other pronouns, and auxiliary verbs.

1978 Radio Times 18 Mar. 15/1 The actor's opinion hardened into the following telegraphese note: ‘Willy beyond question toughest director I've ever worked for.’

2000 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Jan. (Saturday section) 1 It conjures images of Evelyn Waugh's William Boot sending inept telegraphese messages via cleft-sticks from some improbable war-zone to Fleet Street.