Sentences with phrase «vernacular english»

Among the black community, the slur nigger is sometimes rendered as nigga, a pronunciation emphasizing the unique intra-racial dialect of black people, a self - referential pronoun in African - American Vernacular English usage popularized by the rap and hip - hop music cultures.

These overlapping comics all take place in «Black Metropolis» — the long dreamed - of capital of the «Black World» — and are written in Black vernacular English.

This is found in the poetry of reformulation, where creation from waste aligns with a contemporary re-presentation of vernacular English satire.

«Populated by superheroes whose powers derive from those attributed to the seven gods of the Yoruba pantheon, and characters that debate intellectual history, philosophy, and politics in Black vernacular English, Rythm Mastr channels the diasporic and utopian drive of science fiction and Afrofuturism using the intertextual qualities of the graphic novel and the film storyboard.

30:05: The inspiration for Jennifer's new work - in - progress «Cold - blooded», the value of African American Vernacular English, and what it means to not feel safe to use your language openly

As their classmates focus on the scientific concept being studied, ELLs often feel left behind as they struggle to decipher between academic and vernacular English.

I pointed to African American Vernacular English, a dialect spoken by some black people, as a similar example.

Perhaps, in response to my «slanguage» assignment, she has written about code - switching from Caribbean Spanish to black vernacular English to social media lingo.

Players will have the option to read the text in its entirety as well as to expand individual words to understand their meaning either in context or vernacular English.

The KJV as the first vernacular English Bible?

After all, he wrote and published a world best - seller, the Message, which is the bible written in vernacular English.

Not exact matches

«In a country of 1.2 billion people where only 250 million speaks English, vernacular speech recognition can enable financial inclusion to information dissemination to farmers.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

This passage reveal that there are different types of love in the English vernacular.

It chronicles thirteen months in the life of the would - be-poet thirteen - year - old Jason Taylor, who lives in a sleepy English town in 1982 — it's told from his adolescent perspective, in his own British vernacular, at his own meandering pace.

In most cases the English missionaries seem to have taught and preached in the vernacular, although occasionally they relied on translators.

Even when said in the vernacular («Oh,» grieved my old Catholic neighbor, «if only the «liturgical experts» had merely forced us to switch to the English translation on the right - sided pages of our paperback Roman missals»), the Tridentine Mass, despite its shortcomings (even Archbishop Lefebvre admitted that it needed fine - tuning), conveyed the numinosity» an absolutely vital concept for those who turn to the Orient for their worship» that I was only able to find twenty frustrating years later in St. John Chrysostom's and St. Basil's Divine Liturgies.

Trying to master the English vernaculars is a lifelong endeavor.

The Koran has been translated into English and other modern vernaculars many times, though some Moslems, especially the orthodox Egyptians, frown upon it.

Donohue wanted prose that would be closer to Wilde's heart, using English vernacular and eschewing the Biblical «thees» and «thous» that other translators had shoehorned in.

The hoopla is entirely justified, since the King James Bible revolutionized Bible reading, bringing Scripture into a common vernacular for the first time for the English - speaking world.

There are lots of different questions to which «it never did my kids any harm» gets trotted out as a standard response, everything from smacking to cot bumpers to sugary drinks to watching Mister Tumble and I really wish it would be stricken from the English vernacular.

(Also, obviously, almost all of the yelling occurs in the local vernacular language and not in British English).

Perhaps to compensate for his initially faltering English, he developed an ear for the American vernacular that was simply unparalleled, and, boy, did he have a way with a joke.

«Ironically, the one thing that does not work [to improve a student's English] is correcting vernacular features,» said coauthor Rebecca Wheeler, a professor at Christopher Newport University.

Every June the dictionary adds several new words to the English vernacular, provided they meet certain criteria.

Blue collar workers in these factories often do not understand English and it is necessary to impart training in vernacular languages.

English is a vernacular machine, minting and borrowing useful words and phrases on an as - needed basis from «bodega» and «telenovela» to «down with that» or «sending a text.»

Unlike those who came before him, and many of his contemporaries who wrote in French or Latin, Chaucer wrote in the English vernacular thus lending credibility and legitimacy to the language.

You can read books written in English to get a sense of how to write in with the appropriate vernacular, grammar, slang, including dialogue, narrative, and visual description.

Sisi Aisha Johnson lends her fresh, unaffected voice to this story set in segregated rural Alabama, skillfully communicating the detail and tension of the text, and honoring Karen English's use of the vernacular.

Nearly everyone speaks an English dialect (or Creole patois), the vernacular of the country.

I am not a linguistician, and find it hard to qualify why... but given there's hardly a normally accepted vernacular in England, let alone the US, or Australia, or the Global Business English so many non-native-speakers speak entirely fluently... I'd be wary of making such statements.

I don't necessarily agree, and I think it's dangerous to suggest that there is a «normally accepted» English vernacular.

An English and Spanish word that broadly describes images and objects produced in the Americas and typical of American cultures, here it is specifically intended to evoke both North American vernacular art collecting traditions and a unique hemispheric perspective that reaches across national borders.

[Because my work includes] a kind of vernacular language, as well as a «being English» kind of thing, maybe that makes it more readable in some way.

Adam McEwen (1965) is an English conceptual artist, living and working in New York City, best known for his artworks that appropriate vernacular forms of everyday consumer products and objects and repurpose them in new, unexpected contexts.

Some friends in Tanzania, Kenya and the US and I are currently researching the way English «global» discourse of climate change is being transmitted in Tanzania through media and professionals using the lingua franca, Swahili, and how this, in turn, shows up in 7 vernaculars down the sides of Mt. Kilimanjaro and out into the plains where Maa speaking pastoralists are also part of our research.

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.

In the English vernacular and in the literature of global warming climatology «science» is polysemic.

These documents might not exist in English translation, but only in the original language or vernacular.

That said, most people are aware that the British have a fondness for fries — called «chips» in the English vernacular — and the same group that runs the brand police has successfully petitioned for one exception: you can sell fries only if they're included with fish.

Although there's nothing wrong with vernacular in casual settings, most people perceive proper English as more professional in the workplace.

Fluent in English, French and professionally capable of speaking Spanish and Haitian Creole as Vernacular Language.

Today, traditional languages are so far removed from their vernacular that singing in English has become the mainstay, the local languages have become the foreign tongue.

I remember studying Australian slang in 3 - unit English for the HSC — the pinnacle of my academic achievement — and being blitzed by the colourful vernacular.