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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
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is bad spelling or bad handwriting. The term in the sense of "poor
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Index

spelling
accentuation
punctuation
antonym
orthography
handwriting
calligraphy
Greek
misspelling
humour
malapropism
caricature
eye dialect
British shorthair
I Can Has Cheezburger?
Satirical misspelling
Sensational spelling
Catachresis
Gaffe
Corruption (linguistics)
Eye dialect
Teh
Lolcat
Tiopês
A Practical Grammar of French Rhetoric
Watkins, Mel
On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying: the Underground Tradition of African-American Humor that Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor
Simon & Schuster
ISBN
0-671-68982-7

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