Sentences with phrase «into vernacular languages»

And what stands out in particular about the field setting is the emphasis missionaries gave to translating Scripture into vernacular languages.

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And they were able to read it in language written so that anyone, even, as Tyndale wrote, «the boy who driveth the plow,» could understand it.1 The Word became, as Ong says, silent.2 That silence has had profound influence on the way we think about religious language, but it is well to remember that when those translations into the vernacular were made, they were not written down in the language of print.

Later, as Christians became more powerful in the culture, they had to decide whether to translate the «holy» language of the Church into the vernacular, using the new technology of the printing press.

We are looking at further crowd funding to translate the game into 13 vernacular Indian languages, and probable future localizations of the game, starting with a game for the European market.»

His works often call into question issues of police violence and authoritarianism exercised against youth and communities of color, as well as highlight vernacular language, architecture, and food culture associated with the urban lexicon.

In a career spanning more than five decades, Ruscha has distilled the archetypal signs and symbols of the American vernacular into typographic and cinematic codes that are as accessible as they are profound.The wry choice of words and phrases that pervade his work draws upon the moments of incidental ambiguity implicit in the interplay between language and the concept that it signifies.

Ropa Sucia (dirty laundry) journeys into Rodriguez's rite of passage which through the language of clothes and vernacular Salvadoran expressions he examines his Latino identity and traces his family's history.

The translation of the Bible into English, German and other vernacular languages coupled with Gutenberg's printing press caused a rapid distribution of the Bible.

The historic technical distinction in the law (especially in tort law) between assault and battery has been collapsed in the everyday vernacular and this had made its way even into the way that the words are used even by law enforcement officers and legislators, who grew up speaking the vernacular language like everyone else.

What Apple has done by introducing its «post-PC» language into the vernacular is almost more a game of semantics.