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These misconceptions can be self-constructed or taught/learned and based on experience, vernacular terminology, or religion/myth (Alters and Nelson 2002).
Throughout the decades of the 1970's and 1980's; a common vernacular terminology used to describe diabetes was the following: "Diabetes is a basement membrane disease".
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By the 1980s, "narcissistic," like other psychological terminology — "insane," "psychotic," "hysterical" — was seeping into the popular vernacular.
All those voices can be heard in the lines of the Comedy, the Provençal poets and the stil nuovo, the language of Virgil and of Christian hymns, the French epic and the Umbrian Lauds, the terminology of the philosophical schools and the incomparable wealth of the popular vernacular which here for the first time found its way into a poem in the lofty style.
Robert Record's "Castle of Knowledge" (1556), we are told, may be one of the first books of "English vernacular mathematics" teaching geometric principles, though as the exhibition points out, Record's English terminology did not quite displace the Greek: the pentagon never became known as the cinkeangle.
Dauvit Broun has shown that a Gaelic literary elite survived in the eastern Scottish lowlands, in places such as Loch Leven and Brechin into the thirteenth century, However, surviving records are predominantly written in Latin, and their authors would usually translate vernacular terms into Latin, so that historians are faced with researching a Gaelic society clothed in Latin terminology.
Curly: "Vernacular?
(See below Vernacular literatures).
There is less vernacular.
Terminology changes.
No vernacular.
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