Timeline for What counts as a word for the purposes of Sending?
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| Apr 17 at 17:03 | comment | added | Jason_c_o | Bobababyeetsaboy | |
| Apr 17 at 16:24 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Send two punts and a canoe...is an infamous telegram...@MivaScott | |
| Jun 27, 2022 at 12:01 | comment | added | fectin | @MivaScott ...and then people got creative with what a "word" is, and then the telegraph companies charged extra for non-standard words like "quavvaa", etc. (because the actual message is sent via something more like an IRC channel than anything else, weird neologisms and all) | |
| Jun 26, 2022 at 21:04 | comment | added | MivaScott | I recall years ago hearing that telegrams charged by the word, so there was an effort to say more with less words. One example is cabalese. Another is using phonetics, such as saying "Canoe" instead of "Can you". | |
| Jun 26, 2022 at 17:37 | comment | added | Mary | Telegrams being a real world situation with word limits, code books for use with telegrams are good inspiration. Also warning about the limits. | |
| Jun 26, 2022 at 1:23 | history | answered | Quadratic Wizard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |