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I think its best to have an NBA guy, youre coaching NBA guys. I worked with coach (Mike) Krzyzewski on the select team and I had great respect for him. After having done that with an NBA coach, I have even more respect for what he did with the NBA guys. Its just a totally different game. Just watching how Pop can communicate with them. How quickly he can get things done with them, based on the NBA game. You have a short period of time to get ready and theres an NBA vernacular with basketball that you can get things across real quick. – The Don	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Students have coped well with the new curriculum because it is based on their religion, culture and vernacular. – Abdulkadir Mohamed Sheikh	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I played football in college and high school. He was brought up on it, it's a vernacular for us, a way for us to get together and have something to talk about. – Bill Ferguson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. – Raymond Chandler	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Music is the vernacular of the human soul. – Geoffrey Latham	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I think its best to have an NBA guy, youre coaching NBA guys. I worked with coach (Mike) Krzyzewski on the select team and I had great respect for him. After having done that with an NBA coach, I have even more respect for what he did with the NBA guys. Its just a totally different game. Just watching how Pop can communicate with them. How quickly he can get things done with them, based on the NBA game. You have a short period of time to get ready and theres an NBA vernacular with basketball that you can get things across real quick.

– The Don

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Students have coped well with the new curriculum because it is based on their religion, culture and vernacular.

– Abdulkadir Mohamed Sheikh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I played football in college and high school. He was brought up on it, it's a vernacular for us, a way for us to get together and have something to talk about.

– Bill Ferguson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

– Raymond Chandler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

– Geoffrey Latham

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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