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Ska vs Skaz - What's the difference?

ska | skaz |

As an initialism ska

is (astronomy).

As a noun skaz is

a literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.

ska

English

Noun

(-)
  • A style of Jamaican dance music combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues.

    • Derived terms

    * ska punk

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

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    * English terms with unknown etymologies ----

    skaz

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.
  • * 1993 , Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction
    • ...however, Banfield goes on to posit that first person narrative comes in two shapes, one of which is speakerless while the other corresponds with skaz ...
  • * 2000 , Jeremy Hicks, Mikhail Zoshchenko and the poetics of skaz
    • She argues that the chief means of indicating the distance between the two levels in grotesque-ironic skaz is 'linguistic discrediting'...