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On Sat, 2012-11-03, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
...
> "Karate" gets similar treatment in some movies,
> incorporating any martial the script writer has
> ever seen, even if it's from India or Brazil, plus
> whatever the choreographers think would look
> cool in a fight scene

I think that /was/ true, up until the 1980s (the "Karate Kid" movies).
Then they realized it would be even /cooler/ if the fighting style
wasn't something you've heard of before, but the teachings of some
obscure monk in the mountains of Laos, or something ...

(Nethack does the right thing here and never claims the Monk is doing
karate or anything else likely to go out of fashion.)

/Jorgen

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