Vernacular V. Everyday

Vernacular is the language one learns from birth that is spoken by people of the same community and region. Everyday language and writing is just frequent writing that serves a purpose, has an audience, and contains an exigence and can be both formal and informal depending on who it is for. Vernacular isn’t learned and doesn’t have to shape to fit other people’s needs just simply your own. Vernacular and everyday writing are however connected in terms of audience and type of language that is used. Both are directed at people you know or know about and give a sense of personal connection just by what is said in either words spoken or words written. The type of language in vernacular is usually informal, but everyday writing can also be the same. The informality of them both adds to the personal language that is interpreted by the audience. Only the audience and the writer will be able to communicate through the words spoken in their vernacular, which is also one of the main ideas of everyday writing. Tombstones, in my opinion, are more everyday writing than vernacular because they are more formal and are written to speak to the families of the ones who have passed away instead of the person who died. You wouldn’t see a lot of slang or vernacular kinds of phrases on tombstones that you’d use in conversations with friends.