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There are in Spain lots of games with cards for example, brisca, mus, la escoba, etc...
Before starting playing cards we usually shaffle the cards and then pile them up to cortar, that means to divide them into half, how do we say, cortar in this case. And do you have an equivalent to Brisca, Mus, La escoba etc... in English? |
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A very complicated expression:
To cut the cards And there is only one card game worth mentioning: bridge |
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do you have an equivalent for brisca and mus?
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When you "cut" the deck you "partes" from the verb "partir".
Unfortunately I have never heard of the card games you've mentioned other than "bridge"
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@Elaina: That's the Mexican variation, but "cortar" will also be well understood around here.
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Wikipedia calls them briscola and mus, but I don't know them and suspect that quite a lot of people won't.
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That's interesting. I've been playing cards (almost always bridge) for what seems like centuries. Before a hand, someone shuffles and then asks another to cut. I must have done this tens of thousands of times. I have never (consciously) been asked to cut a deck. Last edited by Perikles; February 14, 2011 at 04:13 AM. |
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I'm not certain whether it's an influence from books on conjuring tricks, which I was into well before I started playing bridge.
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