Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: "Jaws" released (21-6-1975) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:39:13 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:39:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9a78eec039f43d7e7f72bf173fb168bd"; logging-data="3914787"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18i4GlAD2MhgLEiPIIqkPc2ZZNme2koffg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GsCKk1NaGyDUbZo4EgX84rI4mRk= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1584 Spot the language link? .... "the 2-note ostinato which represents the shark, a theme so simple that Spielberg initially thought it was a joke by the composer [John Williams]...a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger...highly recognisable..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack and, as Crystal points out, used not only in other films (often with comic intent), but quoted in conversation, to signal "approaching danger"...thus becoming (sort of) part of language.