The dialogue is written with a sure ear, no mean feat considering the vernacular variety, and all the actors, but particularly Ms. Lamia and Ms. Gomez, give their characters the sense that for all their will to connect, they're speaking in separate tongues.
Balaguer saw the expansive vernacular variety of the Philippines as a shortlist of design categories she identifies as: Horror Vaeui Borloloy, Border Mania, Extreme Dropshadow, Maxi Grid Package, Vertical Wordness, and Jejemon Bodots.
My reference to "rules and restrictions" was meant to counter the common misconception that variation in vernacular and other varieties of everyday language is random or unsystematic.
One of Wallace's eminent talents is his ability to juxtapose pseudo-academic discourse with unerring recreations of modern American vernacular, and the variety of voices, from the blue-collar to the would-be intellectual, add up to a comically unappealing and disconcertingly vivid portrait of the American male and his view of women.
John Adams's music has regularly flirted with the forms and idioms of a variety of vernacular musics.
Hiri Motu, also called Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or Hiri, pidgin variety of vernacular Motu, an Austronesian language originally spoken in the area surrounding Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea.
Indian literature, writings of the Indian subcontinent, produced there in a variety of vernacular languages, including Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Bengali, Bihari, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Lahnda, Siraiki, and Sindhi, among others, as well as in English.
Note that my examples included the absence of inflected "is" or "are" in sentences like "He working" and "They nice" in African-American vernacular English and some Southern varieties.
The use of different Prakrits for different sorts of personages in dramas doubtless represents the adaptation to literary convention of different regional varieties that were vernaculars at one time.
