I like the question of semiology here, even though it's not really addressed in the article. I’ve been calling it the début de siècle — French for ‘start of the

I like the question of semiology here, even though it's not really addressed in the article. I’ve been calling it the début de siècle — French for ‘start of the century’. The French term has so much more connotation than the literal English translation, though. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_de_siècle http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_de_siècle