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kakĀ·iĀ·stoĀ·craĀ·cy
noun
Government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
Coulrocracy - rule by clowns
Coprorocracy - rule by shit
Stultiocracy works too
On behalf of all the Welsh people I know would you have a problem with ācacā rather than the Dutch based (?) ākakā in this word?
"Kak" is from Greek. "Cac" is an alternate spelling coming from the same root via French, as in "cacophony" or
I've recently started coming up with new words by changing eu- (meaning good) into caco-. You get some great ones like:
- cacophoria
- cacovangelium
- cacogenics
- cacology
- cacophemism
And my favourite, cacothanasia.
Interesting. I know ākakā from Afrikaans and ācachuā from Welsh. Iāve never seen the word definitively derived from Greek; I always believed the root was from PIE language. What do I know?
I looked up the Dutch "kak" and that's pretty funny. It means "bad" in Greek, but the Dutch meaning still works great - rule by the shittiest people.
Yeah - I assumed āshit (people)ā was what we were going for; ākā doesnāt exist in Welsh so I asked for the alt spelling. Cacophony then translated as āshit soundā in my head - which again, kind of, works. Language is difficult.