Деловое письмо на английском языке. Учебное пособие для студентов экономических и гуманитарных специальностей. Бидагаева Ц.Д. - 47 стр.

    But whatever are the words used, there are certain             this kind of telex because the important thing in business is
common features in all the telegrams, telexes and                  clarity. If the message is not understood by the receiver it
radiograms: they must be as brief as it is possible without        will not only irritate him but may ruin your contacts
affecting the clearness of meaning. This is explained by the       altogether.
fact that both telegraphic and radio messages are quite                 Dates and numbers (for instance, sums of money), are
expensive.                                                         often spelled as one word, e.g. OCTOBER
    In comparison with telegrams telex communication is            TWENTYEIGHT; ONEHUNDREDSEVENTYFOUR USD,
reliable: the message cannot be lost in the mail or non-           ETC.
delivered by the postman.                                               To reduce expenses in longer messages, special codes are
    The following typical features of these messages allow to      used, as the Unicode, the Western Union Code, Bentley’s
make them shorter.                                                 Code, and others, sometimes also special codes of various
    First of all, neither opening, nor closing formulas of         companies.
politeness are used; only the strictly necessary things are             There are expressions most frequently used in letters
included in these messages. Just “please” shortened to             concerning telegrams and telexes:
“PLSE” and “kindly” are used instead of all the usual           We have received             Мы получили Вашу телеграмму
opening formulas. “Best regards” (shortened to “BEST            your telegram reading:        следующего       содержания:
RGDS”, “REGARDS”, “RGDS”) is usually used to close
the message.                                                    We have sent you               Сегодня мы Вам послали
    There are the following usual abbreviations:                today the following telex:     следующий телекс:
    “TLX” – telex;
    “ASAP” – as soon as possible;                               We confirm our cable            Подтверждаем телеграмму Вам
    “ ETA” – estimated time of arrival;                         to you as follows:              следующего содержания:
    “YOURLET” – your letter;
    “OURLET” – our letter;                                              Secondly, auxiliary parts of speech such as articles,
    “YOURTEL” – your telex;                                     prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and the verb in different
    “OURTEL” – our telex;                                       forms may be omitted. You will seldom see an adjective in a
     “RELET” – regarding the letter;                            telex, descriptions in general are out of place in this means of
     “RECABLE’ – regarding the cable;                           communication. Short words are preferred to long ones, many
    “REPHONE” – regarding the telephone conversation.           clichés typical of business writing are not given in full, the
    You can find lists of abbreviations in different            factual information is expressed concisely, in a condensed
dictionaries and textbooks. At the same time, you may come      manner. Due to these peculiarities, telex messages are
across an abbreviation which is registered anywhere. It is      sometimes rather difficult to understand. It takes time to learn to
due to the fact that each writer may develop his/her own way    decipher and compose telex messages. There are no commas,
of abbreviating words. However think twice before sending