From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2011 - 09:02:43 CDT
Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
> Two other cards are possibly still missing to the proposed deck :
> ...
> * and a unicolored separator card (generally blue, or red/orange or
> pink) used to cut the deck after scrambling, and to mark the end of
> the deck in casinos) : those cards aren't played but indicate an event
> that this is the last turn before scrambling the deck again.
("shuffling" in English)
The "cut card" is never considered part of the deck, not even made of
the same material, and I don't recall ever seeing it used in running
text, but who knows? Maybe that will gain traction too.
Possibly related, in a way, are the YELLOW CARD and RED CARD used in
summaries of soccer (football) match scores, to denote a player who was
warned or ejected during the match and the elapsed time. This is seen
in the same context as U+26BD SOCCER BALL, next to the name of a player
who scored and the time. Again, these days you never know what's a
"character."
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