But it's hardly unusual for members of less pedigreed professions to adopt the vernacular of more prestigious ones, said Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Now that an NGO spine care clinic is in place in the villages where we conducted research, it will be interesting to see if MSK language shifts, over time, with community members incorporating more Western paradigms or whether practitioners adopt local vernacular for clinical encounters and educational strategies.
Unlike Pu Songling, whom he far surpassed in both narration and characterization, he adopted the vernacular as his sole medium for fiction writing.
Eventually, the connection between the liturgical drama and the church was severed completely, as the plays came under secular sponsorship and adopted the vernacular.
In early houses such as Deanery Garden, Sonning, Berkshire (1901), he adopted local vernacular styles but was nonetheless able to display his characteristic geometric massing on the exteriors and his love of complex spatial flow in the interiors.
While the freewheeling play traffics in stereotype and anachronism with mixed results, it adopts a vernacular that speaks sincerely and directly to today's gay youth, inviting them to honor the earlier generation that broke the chains of marginalization and invisibility (1 35).
Yet here were young artists expending huge amounts of time and effort to make charmingly strange stuff on the Internet for free, and adopting the vernacular of social media so effectively that their work slipped into the consciousness of millions of people who had little interest in art.
War widows adopt their own vernacular, and time is something measured in small increments.
Programmes should adopt and integrate vernacular terms and concepts.
In these countries the Arabic script was adopted for the vernacular.
