Quotes About The Vernacular Language

#1. Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

Hans Kung

#2. What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!

Pete La Roca

#3. To use folk language, vernacular in a manner neither exotic nor comic, neither minstrelized nor microscopically analyzed.

Toni Morrison

#4. Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Gautama Buddha

#5. The Pharisees deliberately avoided the Late form of Biblical Hebrew (LBH), which is the language of the Bible written after the exile, presenting their teaching in the language of the spoken vernacular.

Angel Saenz-Badillos

#6. The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time
is he who shall create poems in stone.

Louis Sullivan

#7. The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

#8. The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

Pope John XXIII

#9. In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.

Daniel Kahneman