The parlance in the 1998 cult classic movie “The Big Lebowski” is eminently quotable for audiences because characters repeat specific phrases they’ve heard other people say in prior conversation (“The Dude abides” and “That rug really tied the room together,” for example). In fact, both The Dude (played by Jeff Bridges) and Maude (played by Julianne Moore) slip the phrase “the parlance of our times” into their own lexicon. “Parlance” derives from the Old French “parler,” meaning “speak,” and from the Latin noun “parabola,” meaning “comparison.”