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Cartography vs Carnography - What's the difference?

cartography | carnography |

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

English

(wikipedia cartography)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.
  • (countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic.

    • Synonyms

    * cartology

    Derived terms

    * cartographer * cartographic, cartographical English words suffixed with -graphy

    carnography

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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)
    • 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.

    Synonyms

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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 * from Wordspy