Is there a very clear adverb that means 'expressed in (or through) writing'? One word only allowed. This word would be required for parallel structure in a sentence such as the following:
He figured out the problem visually, numerically, and _______________________.
graphically? lexically? literally?
Chirographically? Typographically?
Lexicographically? Semantically?
Just graphically is no good since that has come to refer almost exclusively to drawing and images rather than writing.
Says who?
Why, indeed? If pressed, I would use the prepositional phrase in writing.The problem is most of the likely candidates, (e.g., literally, grammatically, graphically, writerly, cursively), already have different meanings. Numerically sounds a little henky to mine ear. The closest I came was graphemically.
>henky
it's the past pluterperfect of
hinky, I suspect.
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joe (hunky) friday
it's the past pluterperfect of hinky, I suspect.
I've never seen it spelled out. I guess hinky is the proper form, and henky is a regionalism. (Yeah, that's it.)
Oh--I thought
henky meant chickenish.
marilyn, given
gra·phol·o·gy [ gra fólləjee ]
noun
Definition:
1. study of handwriting: the study of handwriting, especially in order to assess somebody's personality from patterns or features of his or her writing (
Encarta),
I'd say an appropriate word would be graphologically--if it's a word, that is.
I thought henky meant chickenish.
Actually, it means singing in a chicken's register.
Okay, so it's a zmjezhdism.
How do chickens push the buttons when they check you out?!?!
And how do you fit in there?
it's the past pluterperfect
Pluter's not a planet any more so it can't be perfect. But I suppose, since it used to be a planet, it could be past pluterperfect.