He was passionate, throughout his life, about the need to create a vernacular written language that would throw off the shackles of Latin.
A useful trick question for cultural quiz-setters is: "In which language did the great Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen write his plays?" The answer is Danish: the tongue of Norway's former conquerors remained its official idiom throughout the 19th century – but with increasing patriotic variations to create a vernacular usually known as Dano-Norwegian.
"We want to create a vernacular for parents to understand the philosophy and level of commitment their child's club is providing.
"She's created a vernacular of kindness in her public life," her close friend the writer and indie musician Carrie Brownstein told me.
The site's features like "Wall" and "Poke" have created a vernacular among the youth population that many find weird.
Nonetheless, it's only fair to include this book in the best-of side, since Saunders has single-handedly created a vernacular-dystopian genre that will now be with us for a long time. 5. We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulaweyo This was a beautiful immigrant story with a fresh voice and lovely, gritty reality, polished to a gleaming M.F.A.-program shine.
"There is always a struggle in New Orleans between the forces of historicism and the progressive forces of those looking to create a new vernacular," said Reed Kroloff, who recently stepped down as dean of Tulane's architecture school and worked on the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, one of Mayor C. Ray Nagin's early planning efforts.
Just as Britain pioneered suburbia with its cosy mock Tudor, Wright created a new vernacular for American architecture, which can be seen in homes throughout the country in some degree.
Yunus, in Anatolia, however, was the first known poet to have caught something of Rūmī's fervour and translated it into a provincial setting, creating "a Turkish vernacular poetry that was to be the model for all subsequent literary productions of popular religion".
This project is the first part of a much larger project that intends to create a knowledge base of vernacular building traditions that will include information about not only the energy performance of traditional building techniques, but also address areas of cost, material availability and cultural traditions.
Likewise, "Caroline, or Change" used its visual, sonic, and linguistic vernacular to create a kind of American folk opera, in which the worlds of white privilege and African-American impoverishment were woven together in a dreamlike fable that bore the influence of Kushner's friend Maurice Sendak, with whom he has written a children's book and an opera libretto.
