Word: vernacularized
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...despite all the theoretical limitations of the genre. The Play of Daniel is full of a vitality which is often lacking in the more pretentious art-works of our own century. At times the language of the text even slides momentarily from the ecclesiastical into the vernacular, and this is even more true of the music which often speaks in a language so close to real life that it makes itself understood many centuries later...
...speech that began emerging long before the British colonials and Africans were transformed into Americans. It is a language that evolved from the king's English but, basing itself upon the realities of the American land and colonial institutions-or lack of institutions, began quite early as a vernacular revolt against the signs, symbols, manners and authority of the mother country. It is a language that began by merging the sounds of many tongues, brought together in the struggle of diverse regions. And whether it is admitted or not, much of the sound of that language is derived from...
Like most auto manufacturers in headlong pursuit of the youth market, General Motors Corp. has saturated much of its car advertising with the hip jargon of the dragstrip. Yet for many consumers, including the young, the ads, with their mod vernacular, seemed as strained and unbelievable as a middle-aged matron attempting to dance the watusi. Now, faced with an uncertain economy and slumping car sales, G.M. officials have apparently decided to end their fixation with power and youth in advertising and focus it instead on value and comfort...
Then, as if the polar axis had shifted, came the liberation of Vatican II. The Mass was invaded by drums, guitars, mariachi ensembles; experimental liturgies were celebrated in the vernacular. There was Communion under "both kinds"-bread and wine-a privilege that the Latin-rite laity had not enjoyed in centuries. (Protestants customarily receive both bread and wine, but Catholics believe that the bread alone -the living body of Christ-includes the "blood" as well.) Now the Vatican and the many national conferences of bishops are in the process of adopting an official new Mass that combines both longstanding tradition...
...bone up properly on New Leftese, one must go to the sources, to an anthology doubling as a style manual like The New Left Reader: all dialectics illustrated from late-model Castro to early Rudd (Mark I). And for training the ear, there is a living-vernacular record: Rebellion and Repression, onetime S.D.S. President Tom Hayden's testimony before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence and the House Un-American Activities Committee. At times the work is a near masterpiece in the invective of martyrdom...