Data's name is properly pronounced (day-tuh) as opposed to the alternative pronunciations (dah-ta) or (datt-a). When Data corrects Dr. Katherine Pulaski for using the latter pronunciation, Pulaski asks, "What's the difference?" Data replies, "One is my name, the other is not".
How did Data's natural language processing capabilities become so precise yet sensitive?
It all started 4 centuries earlier in 1985..