The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview. '
Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular.
I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?
In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care. '
I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino. ' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
