Movies Popularizing Slang

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:50 PM -0400 8/20/02, Rick H Kennerly wrote:
>  >>Treasure of the Sierra Madres for "Badges? We don't need no stinkin'
>badges"
>>>
>
>|o|which didn't actually come from there in that form, according to an
>|o| earlier thread we had awhile back.
>
>Which is a problem with a lot of movie dialog that persists in culture.
>It's like "play it again, Sam" or "Elementary, my dear Watson".  Do you
>accurately quote the source or do you quote the common usage?

Definitely a problem for Fred, in his Yale Dictionary of Quotations.
I imagine he'll have to quote them both ways.   Of course anymore
you'd have to include "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou?", which
would have made no sense at all to Juliet.

L