On Cacographic calligraphy.
That would be my wife's Chinese handwriting. It's interesting. Each of us has very bad handwriting, yet both of our father's are calligraphers. My dad (step-dad) used to do calligraphy for people - he did it for his bosses in the army, for friends, and now he sometimes incorporates it into the crafts he works on.
I was always intruiged by the fact that he was such a formidable person, but he wrote like a sissy.
My wife's handwriting: well, it looks pretty much like she took holt of a chicken by the neck, shoved it's feet in ink, and daubbed it vigorously all over the page. Her dad's writing, though, as well as her mother's when the woman was alive, were really amazing. The English writing is beautiful, but the Chinese is sublime.
I like these calli/caco words a lot. BTW, my recollection is that cacography refers to either poor handwriting or to bad spelling.
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