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Volume 21 Issue: 1117 June 2011You decline ‘Vernacular’?Verna, a home-born slave, hencethe tongue of family. Thediction’ry equates theVulgate of St Jerome, in its day thelingua franca, but only of the erudite —The modern law aspires to common speech(in contracts, not in court) soGive to Caesar what is Caesar’s andLet us pray away our way Yahweh andSave your thee’s and thou’s.Jesus said ‘G’day mate, why don’tchertry a cast off the point there, Ihad a few bites just now, reckon you’llcatch a feed, at least. I’ll get the billy on ...’They knew him in the breaking of the bread:Awesome is what stuns our soul to love andClumsy words cannot make it so.Hoplon’s a shield, hoplite its soldier bearer:Greek, not Roman as Golgotha, where(casting lots by chance, ‘aleatory’)an outer garment found another corpus:that’s a ‘gallimaufry’ (medley) if you like,but Porter does it better.—Paul DignamRoyal Ballet©2011 EurekaStreet.com.au 35