[blml] Clubbed Queen

[Tim West-Meads]

Adam wrote

> I don't see how "sechs" and "acht" would sound anything alike.  

Thus speaks a man who has never heard my attempts at German:)

"Das Acht" with a glottal stop instead of a T sounds (when I say it) not 
unlike "Das Sechs" with elision of the first two S's and the final 
sibilant largely suppressed. I happy using Zwei/Drei as a better example 
or perhaps going for the French six/dix.  The principle I was trying to 
embrace was that the chances of the ploy working are increased by the 
choice of phonetically similar cards.  I apologise if my example was 
linguistically inept (perhaps German cards get to have sex and the 
confusion is harder to achieve than I thought).

Tim