Crawl vs Cacography - What's the difference?
crawl | cacography |
To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
* Grew
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
To act in a servile manner.
* Shakespeare
See crawl with.
To feel a ing sensation.
To swim using the crawl stroke.
To move over an area on hands and knees.
To visit while becoming inebriated.
To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops
A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick
(television, film) A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
*1846 , Gabriel Surenne, A Practical Grammar of French Rhetoric , IV.4.1:
*:A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography , when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.
*1999 , Jack Schofield, The Guardian , 25 Feb 1999:
*:In 1997, two American entrepreneurs, Robert Hoffer and Timothy Kay, formed a company called Typo.net to try to profit from Web surfers' cacography .
*2003 , Onwuchekwa Jemie (ed.), Yo' Mama! , p. 10:
*:The soul of dialect is cacography , the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism.
Poor or illegible handwriting.
*1904 , John Rexford, What Handwriting Indicates , pp. 90-91:
*:Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes.
*2002 , Mil Millington, The Guardian , 29 Jun 2002:
*: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.
*2010 , Martin L. Buxbaum, Negotiations with the Sniper: Book One , p. 63:
*:I don't even recognize the handwriting – kind of a scrawled, almost illegible cacography with the letters slanting haphazardly in all directions.
As nouns the difference between crawl and cacography
is that crawl is the act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops or crawl can be a pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish while cacography is bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.As a verb crawl
is to creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.crawl
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crawlen, (m), ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- hath crawled into the favour of the king
Derived terms
* crawlerDescendants
* German:Noun
(en noun)- The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.