Vernacular vs Prose - What's the difference?
vernacular | prose |
The language of a people or a national language.
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
Of or pertaining to everyday language.
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
(architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported
(art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported
Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
* Milton
Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, Scene II, verses 189-190
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In roman catholicism terms the difference between vernacular and prose
is that vernacular is the indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated while prose is a hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.As nouns the difference between vernacular and prose
is that vernacular is the language of a people or a national language while prose is language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.As an adjective vernacular
is of or pertaining to everyday language.As a verb prose is
to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.vernacular
English
(wikipedia vernacular)Noun
(en noun)- ''A vernacular of the United States is English.
- Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
- For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
- Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular .
Synonyms
* (language unique to a group) argot, jargon, slangAntonyms
* (national language) lingua francaAdjective
(en adjective)- a vernacular disease
Synonyms
* (of everyday language) common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar * (architecture) folkExternal links
* * * English terms derived from Etruscan ----prose
English
(wikipedia prose)Noun
(en-noun)- Though known mostly for her prose , she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
- things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme
Antonyms
* poetry, verseDerived terms
* prose poem * purple proseVerb
- Pray, do not prose , good Ethelbert, but speak
- What is your purpose?
