Cacography
Cacography is bad spelling or bad handwriting. The term in the sense of "poor spelling, accentuation, and punctuation" is a semantic antonym to orthography,[1] and in the sense of "poor handwriting" it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy: cacography is from Greek κακός (kakos "bad") and γραφή (graphe "writing").
Cacography is also deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.[2][3]
A common usage of cacography is to caricature illiterate speakers,[4] as with eye dialect spelling. Others include the use to indicate that something was written by a child, to indirectly voice a cute or funny animal in a meme such as the captioned photo of a British shorthair that was the namesake of I Can Has Cheezburger?, or because the misspelling bears a humorous resemblance to a completely unrelated word.[citation needed]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Satirical misspelling
- Sensational spelling
- Catachresis
- Gaffe
- Corruption (linguistics)
- Eye dialect
- Teh
- Lolcat
- Tiopês
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