# Movies that changed our language **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323 "2011-08-27T22:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323/61 "2011-09-02T14:37:25Z")
Spike’s chip began to malfunction & [Buffy wanted to help](http://vrya.net/bdb/clip.php?clip=3995). (He being in one of his Not A Bloodsucking Fiend periods. (Besides, he was cute!)) > [@](#): > > BUFFY: Well, we’ll fix it. We’ll hit serious research mode? > > SPIKE: Good. Try Behavioral Modification Software Throughout the Ages. > > BUFFY: OK. You’re right. Not a book thing. It’s a phone thing. > > SPIKE: Who you gonna call? (off her look) God, that phrase is never gonna be useable again, is it? > > BUFFY: Doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323/62 "2011-09-02T16:14:29Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Bill and Ted did it first. > > [Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/quotes?qt=qt0412338) I believe the proper Bill and Ted response to “no way” was not “way” but “_yes_ way”. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323/63 "2011-09-02T16:16:15Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > …I wonder if the Beats’ patois wasn’t impacted more by Maynard G. Krebs than by Kerouac or Ginsburg?.. First there were The Beats: Ginsberg, Kerouac, _et al._ Then they were exploited–with paperbacks & movies trumpeting Beat orgies–usually involving bongos. In fact, Herb Caen coined the word “Beatnik” to describe the wanna-be’s who flocked to his beautiful city by the bay in search of free love, reefer & poetry. [Beatsville](http://forums.thefashionspot.com/showpost.php?p=735503&postcount=47) described both the “real” Beats & the pop phenomenon. The Beatnik stuff has inspired some modern weirdo artists… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323/64 "2011-09-02T21:35:13Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > **10** introduced the concept of rating people’s attractiveness, and eventually rating a lot of things, on a ten-point scale. > > (And the funny thing is, the title is not quite accurate. Moore’s therapist asks, “How would you rate this woman on a scale of one to ten?” and he says “Eleven.”) For some reason I feel obliged to post [this.](http://crazcowboy.tripod.com/Silverstein/numbers.htm) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323/65 "2011-09-03T00:19:12Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > **10** introduced the concept of rating people’s attractiveness, and eventually rating a lot of things, on a ten-point scale. > > (And the funny thing is, the title is not quite accurate. Moore’s therapist asks, “How would you rate this woman on a scale of one to ten?” and he says “Eleven.”) My first exposure to a rating scale came from Dan Jenkins, who ran it in the other direction in **Semi-Tough** (1972)(7 years before **10** ): - "A long time ago, way back in college at TCU, me and Shake and Barbara Jane to a certain extent had worked up this rating system for girls, or wool. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323/66 "2011-09-03T00:40:50Z")
It is interesting to note that shortly after “Jurassic Park” came out, Toronto’s new basketball team was named, by popular appeal, the Toronto Raptors. The team’s mascot is a dinosaur, its logo a dinosaur footprint. Certainly “raptors” is identified with dinosaurs by a lot of people. Prior to 1993 I doubt most people were familiar with the word. ---
**Author:** ![Doom\_Slinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Doom\_Slinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doom_Slinger)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323/67 "2011-09-03T00:41:34Z")
> [@Khan](#): > > How about “Enterprise?” I imagine it’d be hard for anyone to use that word in reference to business or aircraft carriers without the word “starship” coming to mind. Purely anecdotal, but I’m convinced that Star Trek: The Next Generation essentially determined how everyone would forevermore pronounce the word “data.” I seem to remember that prior to TNG, people were more or less evenly split between saying “day-ta” and “dat-uh.” Once the show became popular, consensus seemed to solidify on the “day-ta” pronunciation used by Commander Data to refer to himself. Nowadays, I almost never hear anyone say “dat-uh.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-changed-our-language/594323.md?page=3)