{"id":14752,"date":"2017-11-08T18:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14752"},"modified":"2017-11-08T18:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:59:54","slug":"to-write-like-a-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14752","title":{"rendered":"To write like a crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/handwriting2.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"137\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"An example of my handwriting\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If your handwriting is difficult to read, you apparently write like a crow, at least you do in Swedish &#8211; <em>skriva som en kr\u00e5ka<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of things I discovered today when putting together a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/idioms\/swedish.htm\">page of Swedish idioms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If your spelling is poor, you spell like a crow &#8211; <em>stava som en kr\u00e5ka<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this? Are crows known for their poor writing and spelling in Sweden?<\/p>\n<p>I found &#8220;to have (hand)writing like chicken scratch&#8221; in English [<a href=\"https:\/\/idioms.thefreedictionary.com\/have+(hand)writing+like+chicken+scratch\">source<\/a>], though haven&#8217;t come across it before.<\/p>\n<p>Are there equivalent idioms in other langauges?<\/p>\n<p><em>The image is an example of my handwriting. I can write more neatly than this, though rarely write by hand these days anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your handwriting is difficult to read, you apparently write like a crow, at least you do in Swedish &#8211; skriva som en kr\u00e5ka. That&#8217;s one of things I discovered today when putting together a new page of Swedish idioms. If your spelling is poor, you spell like a crow &#8211; stava som en kr\u00e5ka. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,125,10,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-idioms","category-language","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}