Sentence examples for vernacular where from inspiring English sources

The scripts are total reinventions of how they speak: If they once said, for example, "I'm O.D. sad" — an expression in the black vernacular where O.D. literally means over dosed, a stand in for "over-the-top" — they might instead say, "I'm disheartened". Urban language, which takes its shape around our urban culture, is beautiful but sometimes problematic.

"The magnitude of the crisis has created this sales vernacular where people are saying, 'If I'm not getting 50percentt off, I'm not even getting off the couch,' " she added, " 'but 70 or 80percentt off gets my attention.' " In recent visits to stores, Ms. Liebmann said, she noticed that if there was "nothing on sale," there was "nobody in the store".

"What I got to do with [Ellison] was be his tutee for a year, and take a course with him called 'American Vernacular,' where I understood that American literature at its best was a function of how we spoke, how we told stories around campfires — how we bragged, consoled, lamented and felt," Katz explains.

He finds the word vague, and consequently rejects it for serious use, saying that the word is "useful and unobjectionable in the vernacular where we acquiesce in vagueness, but unsuited to technical use because of lacking a precise boundary" (Quine, 1984, 295).

Along with the bakery zone, there would be a vernacular zone, where visitors could learn handy words and phrases to roll out during their time in England's better half.

For them, hip-hop – and its roots of African American struggles – is an accessible yet multicultural vernacular: one where beats and rhyme flow as both nonviolent resistance against dictatorship and a globalized call for unity and action.

Best of all, her book offers many early photographs of those plants in situ, growing happily in vernacular gardens, where the foliage looks almost as venerable as the humans posing beside it.

As in English vernacular architecture, where wood was available, crucks (pairs of curved timbers) were often used to support the roof.

Mr. Westmoreland is from the South, where the vernacular meaning of the word has always been clear.

His next stop was a discussion on "The Interaction of Vernacular & Formal Music", where a talk was being given by Mr. Tran Van Khe, a Vietnamese.

Its origins may possibly be attributed to a Christian adoption of biblical versions made by Jews in the Roman province of Africa, where the vernacular was exclusively Latin.