On Apr 21, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Christopher Fynn wrote: > In India you could have telegrams > containing such sentences delivered in any of the major Indian > regional languages.
There is apparently a version of this still in use, seen in the List of Standard Phrases for Greeting Telegrams at the bottom of this page: http://www.pondyonline.com/User/static/TelegramService.aspx But it's not clear whether language translation is provided.

