cacographyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From caco- +‎ -graphy, perhaps after Middle French cacographie.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/
• 韻: -ɒɡɹəfi

名詞

cacography (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cacographies)

1. Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. [from 16th c.]
   • 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!, page 10:

     The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism.

   Antonym: orthography

2. Poor or illegible handwriting. [from 17th c.]
   • 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, page 63:

     I don't even recognize the handwriting – kind of a scrawled, almost illegible cacography with the letters slanting haphazardly in all directions.

   Antonym: calligraphy

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