Movies Popularizing Slang

[jane parker]

Animal House? Star Wars and the Star Trek movies certainly have contributed
to the verbal discourse among my friends and family.  I am not sure you
would call it slang.

Jane P Parker


on 8/18/02 12:16 PM, Fred Shapiro at fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU wrote:

> Can anyone suggest names of movies that played significant roles in
> popularizing slang expressions, such as "Clueless" or "Wayne's World"?
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> Fred Shapiro
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