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Cacography
Cacography is bad spelling or bad handwriting. The term in the sense of "poor spelling, accentuation, and punctuation" is a semantic antonym to orthography, and in the sense of "poor handwriting" it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy: cacography is from Greek κακός (''kakos'' "bad") and γραφή (''graphe'' "writing"). Cacography is also deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism. A common usage of cacography is to caricature illiterate speakers, as with eye dialect spelling. Others include the use to indicate that something was written by a child, to indirectly voice a cute or funny animal in a meme such as the captioned photo of a British shorthair that was the namesake of I Can Has Cheezburger?, or because the misspelling bears a humorous resemblance to a completely unrelated word. See also * Satirical misspelling *Sensational spelling * Catachresis * Gaffe * Corruption (linguistics) * Eye dialect * Teh *Lolcat A lolcat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sensational Spelling
Sensational spelling is the deliberate spelling of a word in a non-standard way for special effect. Branding Sensational spellings are common in advertising and product placement. In particular, brand names such as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (''crispy cream''), Weetabix (''wheat'', with ''bix'' being derived from ''biscuits''), Blu-ray (''blue''), Kellogg's "Froot Loops" (''fruit'') or Hasbro's Playskool (''school'') may use unexpected spellings to draw attention to or trademark an otherwise common word. In video games, well-known examples of sensational spelling include "'' Mortal Kombat'' (''combat'') and Nintendo's "Pak" (''pack''), the name used for the media and accessories of its early video game systems. In popular music Sensational spelling may take on a cult value in popular culture, such as the heavy metal umlaut. During the 1960s, bands often included in their names misspelled words and/or homophones that played on double meanings of the names as spoken. Examples in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catachresis
Catachresis (from Greek , "abuse"), originally meaning a semantic misuse or error—e.g., using "militate" for "mitigate", "chronic" for "severe", "travesty" for "tragedy", "anachronism" for "anomaly", "alibi" for "excuse", etc.—is also the name given to many different types of figures of speech in which a word or phrase is being applied in a way that significantly departs from conventional (or traditional) usage. Variant definitions There are various characterizations of catachresis found in the literature. Examples Dead people in a graveyard being referred to as inhabitants is an example of catachresis. Example from Alexander Pope's ''Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry'': Masters of this atachresiswill say, :Mow the beard, :Shave the grass, :Pin the plank, :Nail my sleeve. Use in literature Catachresis is often used to convey extreme emotion or alienation. It is prominent in baroque literature and, more recently, in dadaist and surrealist literature. Use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satirical Misspelling
A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose. This can be achieved with intentional malapropism (e.g. replacing ''erection'' for ''election''), enallage (giving a sentence the wrong form, eg. "we was robbed!"), or simply replacing a letter with another letter (for example, in English, '' k'' replacing '' c''), or symbol ('' $'' replacing '' s''). Satiric misspelling is found widely today in informal writing on the Internet, but is also made in some serious political writing that opposes the status quo. ''K'' replacing ''c'' In political writing Replacing the letter ''c'' with ''k'' in the first letter of a word was used by the Ku Klux Klan during its early years in the mid-to-late 19th century. The concept is continued today within the group. For something similar in the writing of groups opposed to the KKK, see , below. In the 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, the Yippies sometimes used ''Amerika'' ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
