Joe Ketzer referenced “telegram style” in a “Cogito” post comment 3/30/2022. That got me looking, and I found a copy of Orville Wright’s telegram, dated Dec. 17, 1903. Notice there are no pronouns, or articles the, a, an, which are used in Germanic languages, such as English, as Joe pointed out.
In the public domain. “Telegram from Orville Wright in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to His Father Announcing Four Successful Flights, 1903 December 17”, created 20 July 2013, 21:00:21, source http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11372/ author Orville Wright [***the source is not secure***]
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