Cacography vs. Orthography
Cacographynoun
Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
Cacographynoun
Poor or illegible handwriting.
Cacographynoun
Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.
Cacographynoun
poor handwriting
Cacography
Cacography is deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.The term in the sense of is a semantic antonym to orthography, and in the sense of it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy: cacography is from Greek κακός (kakos ) and γραφή (graphe ). A common usage of cacography is to caricature illiterate speakers, as with eye dialect spelling.
Orthographynoun
(linguistics) The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
Orthographynoun
The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
Orthographynoun
: the specific method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
Orthographynoun
(architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.
Orthographynoun
The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious.
Orthographynoun
The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.
Orthographynoun
A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.
Orthographynoun
The method of spelling the words of a particular language; the system of symbols used for writing a language.
Orthographynoun
The branch of linguistics concerned with how languages are written.
Orthographynoun
a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Most transnational languages in the modern period have a system of writing, and for most such languages a standard orthography has been developed, often based on a standard variety of the language, and thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language.
