The International Telegraph Union directed in 1885 that all commercial telegraph messages must be genuine words in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, or Latin, and the sending office could demand proof of a word's legitimacy.
*grimblegrimblegrimble* No prunkling over the telegraph, eh? Does it say why they instituted such a rule?
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Date: 2005-08-24 05:31 pm (UTC)*grimblegrimblegrimble* No prunkling over the telegraph, eh? Does it say why they instituted such a rule?