"The columns reference specific movements, architects, and styles along with vernacular, common forms.
Vernacular forms like the shotgun, in places like New Orleans, served a purpose that went far beyond aesthetics — they encouraged natural cooling by improving cross-ventilation.
Ebonics is a vernacular form of American English used in the home or for day-to-day communication rather than for formal occasions.
Though there are no point shoes, it is a ballet, and though it contains vernacular forms, they are not separated from the ballet steps.
Instead, the conversations suggested an alternate architectural firmament — of vernacular forms and the reintegration of craft with progressive design, of edible forest gardens, rammed earth and composting toilets.
There is an etymological justification for this focus: the word classical initially referred to languages associated with upper-class society, as opposed to vernacular forms of expression.
Traditional storytelling remains a much-admired art form, and Emirati culture, like Arab culture on the whole, esteems poetry, whether it is classical, contemporary, or the Bedouin vernacular form called nabaṭī.
Comic books are what novels used to be -- an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal -- and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.
When Mr. Buraczeski departs from jazz he uses reworkings of vernacular forms, klezmer, ragtime and also the popular music of other countries and what we still rather awkwardly call world music.
Such evidence lends support to the view that by the 6th or 5th century bce Sanskrit (as a medium of communication between members of a particular social stratum) coexisted with Middle Indo-Aryan dialects, and that depending on the circumstances either the higher or the more vernacular forms of speech were used.
