Does anyone know what a telegraphic sentence is?

Question

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Answer 1

Apparantly its a term used in linguitics and psychology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphic_speech

Answer 2

The expression no doubt stems from the days when urgent messages were sent by telegram. The cost of telegrams was determined by the number of words, so people abbreviated just to the point of unintelligibility.

Answer 3

The phrase stems from the practise of telegraph companies charging their clients by the word. Thus, instead of, "My plane is scheduled to arrive at JFK at 3 pm tomorrow" the telegram would read "Arriving at 3."