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For example the suits of playing cards [0]: here in Germany we have our own suits, but those decks are really only used for some very specific games. For all ot
by usrusr 2y ago
For example the suits of playing cards [0]: here in Germany we have our own suits, but those decks are really only used for some very specific games. For all other games, we use the same cards as the English speaking world and we call those French. For diamonds and spades even the French names remain, in heavily adapted spelling: Karo from carreau and Pik from pique.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card_suit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card_suit
- dmoy 2y agoWhat's funny is those Skat decks that are clearly the "normal" (French I guess hahah) suits, except with still only Skat number of cards and nonstandard colors. So it's 32 cards, and green/etc colors, but it replaces the bells and acorns. That's like 90%+ of the skat decks I ever used, but it didn't occur to me that it was like halfway between original German deck and French deck