Scrawled vs Cacography - What's the difference?
scrawled | cacography | Synonyms |
Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.
:The doctor's scrawled signature was almost unreadable.
(scrawl)
:He scrawled his signature on the receipt with quick disregard for legibility.
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.
