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In Japanese, telegrams are printed using the katakana script, one of the few instances in which this script is used for entire sentences.
In some ways, "telegram style" was the precursor to the modern language abbreviations employed in "texting" or the use of short message standard (SMS) services such as Twitter. On telegrams, space was at a premium—economically speaking—and abbreviations were used as a matter of necessity.
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