Cacography - Bad Writing - Spelling

I love this word because I'm a bad speller. Who knew such a perfect word existed?

cacography

PRONUNCIATION:

(kuh-KOG-ruh-fee)

MEANING:

noun:
1. Bad handwriting.
2. Incorrect spelling.

ETYMOLOGY:

From caco- (bad), from Greek kakos (bad) + -graphy (writing). Caco is ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate) which also gave us poppycock, cacophony, and cucking stool. Opposites of today's word are calligraphy (beautiful handwriting) and orthography (correct spelling). A related word is cacology.

USAGE:

"Before I could think of quitting, my boss enlightened me on the virtues of my handwriting, which was sheer cacography: 'Your writing is in direct competition with the Harappan script that still had the hope of being deciphered in the distant future.'"
Vikram Kumar; Positions Very Vacant; The Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India); Apr 15, 2008.

"They [Nerds Inc.] have taken advantage of cacography in a novel way. ... They registered more than 90 of the most probable misspellings of popular Web addresses afforded by the QWERTY keyboard, for processing by typo.net."

Thomas W. Holcomb Jr.; Nerds Inc. Turns Typos Into On-Line Advertising; The New York Times; Jun 2, 1997.

A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

Julien Breton - Arabic Light Calligraphy

Who knew calligraphy could be so cutting edge and innovative? What a creative mind to figure out how to do this.

Link to Julien's homepage: http://kaalam.free.fr/. The paper and light calligraphy galleries on his site are beautiful too. He also has Flickr as well as Google images. See the master at work in his videos.

clipped from designllama.blogspot.com Julien Breton aka Kaalam light caligrapher -Insane, this is what this is about , this guy is taking it to a whole other level, check those visuals, no photoshop , no after effect, just a pix ( that might take 10 minutes something ) with a really long exposure, couple light torch of different shapes and colors and Julien Breton( A guy from Nantes-france) is doing is magic, check the precision, the colors, the intensity of his art, this is quality. i just love it , bravo mec. more info