4.3.04

WELL: I got my midterm in modern political thought back, and received a couple of comments which said "too telegraphic" without any further explanation*. As I did not write my exam in morse code, I'm wondering if any casual peruser of this blog has any idea of what this term is supposed to mean.

*The grader managed to sufficiently frighten me today to the point that I won't ask, for fear she'll knock my grade down retroactively, and I'm quite happy with the grade I got.

UPDATE: Potential answer provided by my resident linguistic anthropologist:

Dara: sometimes that means you describe what you're about to say too much?
Dara: sometimes people use 'telegraphic' to mean that?
Dara: (I think it's dumb-ass, but what do I know?)
Me: oh, like telegraphing your punches?
Dara: yeah!

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