Cartography vs Carnography - What's the difference?
cartography | carnography |
(uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.
(countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic.
Any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence.
* 1995 , Linda Badley, Film, horror, and the body fantastic (page 6)
As nouns the difference between cartography and carnography
is that cartography is (uncountable) the creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography while carnography is any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence.cartography
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(wikipedia cartography)Noun
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* cartologyDerived terms
* cartographer * cartographic, cartographical English words suffixed with -graphycarnography
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(-)- In 1986, Philip Brophy noted in Screen magazine that the horror film defied critics' attempts to deal with it as other than plotless carnography , gore, and effects for an increasingly brutalized mass audience.
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*References
*"Carnography"] 1972 review of [[Wikipedia:First Blood (novel), First Blood]'' by ''Time' s John Skow which describes the book as "carnography" ie. "meat writing". *
A linguist traces "carnography" as far back as 1984*
Eric Raymond defining "carnography" in a book review*
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