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[Nick Wedig]

>> Wondering what France considers "stereotypical American
>catchphrases."
>>
>Godammit ? By Jove ? Dr Livingstone I presume ? Elementary
>my dear Watson ? :-)
>
>don't know if my english is very clear, but i tried, i
>promise, i tried ! ;-)

All the phrases after 'Godammit' sound to me like stereotypical British catchphrases (especially as the 'elementary' comes from a British guy, and I think the 'livingstone' one too, rather than American.  Which isn't a critique, so much as a reflection on how the French see Americans.

Me, I was expecting 'Whazzup!' to make the list, but what do I know?

On-topic bit: As he said, postmodernism is much further developed in America (everything I know about Brazil I learned from Terry Gilliam, so I can't really comment on what's out of the US), so schools would tend to focus less on tradition than in Europe.  Compare Cliomancy and Cryptomancy, both European schools with established histories, with other schools, presumably American, with no history, or very short ones (Entropomancy goes back only to WWII, and Pornomancy less than that) and don't even seem to make the efforts at constructing a history that the Sleepers/cliomancers do.

Mr. Teapot
at the end of history

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