What does «cacografía» mean in Spanish?
- Writing with incorrect spelling or a bad writing style (bad handwriting or bad use of letters and signs). For example, writing "amenasa" (instead of "amenaza") is cacography. Also, forming letters incorrectly when writing by hand is cacography, for example, writing a letter "n" instead of "m" or incorrectly graphing a sign.
- In education, a text in which spelling errors have been deliberately introduced in order to train students to detect and correct them.
- Deliberate comic misspelling is a type of humor similar to malapropism (incorrect use of paronymous words). A common use of cacography is to caricature illiterate speakers ("Usté enzima me deve dinero"). Other examples include use to indicate that something was written by a child ("zi, pa, quiedo id a los jueguitos") or because the misspelling bears a humorous resemblance to a completely unrelated word (