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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 _______________________.

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graphically? lexically? literally?

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Chirographically? Typographically?

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Lexicographically? Semantically?

Just graphically is no good since that has come to refer almost exclusively to drawing and images rather than writing.

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Originally Posted By: marilynmonroe
One word only allowed.


Says who?

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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.


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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
sounds a little henky to mine ear

henky?? Please elaborate! :0)

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>henky

it's the past pluterperfect of hinky, I suspect.

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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.)


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Oh--I thought henky meant chickenish. whistle

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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.

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