Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1915 — TELEGRAPHESE’ BEST TO USE [ARTICLE]

TELEGRAPHESE’ BEST TO USE

—r*"~: Correspondent Finds English Language to Be the Tersest in Europe. .7 Which language makes the best telegraphese* At so much a word one might hasten to say Gendin, because of its parely typographical device of sticking a number of words together to look like one compound word. We IfbMHwfN exactly' tie feme~thltig in

the compound as separate words. But in international telegraphing there is a word length limit tor, as the Germans would print, ja wordlengthiimit) - Ten letters is the maximum allowed for a single word. Any word lodger than that counts as two; or as three —if it gets beyond the second ten, a* some German tfords do. -r- ---■ * When it comes to counting letters or making up intelligible telegraphese. English, it seems, is the tersest language in Europe. -An -Italia®-*«ewe-paper correspondent has lately discov-

ered this In telegraphing news from London to his paper in Italy. At the beginning of the war he used Italian Then when all languages except Eng lish and * French were forbidden M took French. Later, finding that French* though accepted by the poet office, seemed to cause delay, he changed to English, and to his surprise he finds that he is saving quite a lot of money in telegraph fees owing to the superior brevity of the Eng--Hshu -language as. compared. with French or Italian.