cacography in Polish
cacography in Polish is kakografia — cacography means spelling or punctuation that is poor, especially when it is seen as typical of a language or dialect.
cacography in Polish
kakografia
What does "cacography" mean?
- noun Spelling or punctuation that is poor, especially when it is seen as typical of a language or dialect.
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noun Spelling mistakes made on purpose for comic effect, or the wrong use of a similar-sounding word.
"The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism."
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noun Handwriting that is messy and hard to read.
"Germans write a "1" so it's easy to confuse it with a "7": mathematics and cacography can leave Margret and I not speaking to each other for a week."
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cacography in a sentence
- The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism.
- Germans write a "1" so it's easy to confuse it with a "7": mathematics and cacography can leave Margret and I not speaking to each other for a week.
- I don't even recognize the handwriting – kind of a scrawled, almost illegible cacography with the letters slanting haphazardly in all directions.
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What is "cacography" in Polish?
"cacography" in Polish is kakografia. cacography means: Spelling or punctuation that is poor, especially when it is seen as typical of a language or dialect.
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