Card Sharp?

Kenocka··2 votes·622 views

Is this perhaps a typo?

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Variks the Loyal2 votes

A Card Sharp is a person who cheats at card games.

Jubbinaut1 votes

To support the above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharp

Specifically, "card sharp" and "card shark" are almost interchangeable terms.

OperationDEEZ11 votes

Isn't it "Card Shark"?

Absozero1 votes

Card Sharp is the actual term. People commonly use 'card shark' and it's wrong.

Jubbinaut1 votes

I thought that until I did a little research. They're both considered correct, and at least in the US, they're becoming recognized as having slightly different meanings/implications.

A card sharp is a person who takes advantage of other players by cheating.

A card shark is a person who merely takes advantage of less-skilled players. Notably, it doesn't carry the implications of cheating.

That said, the "sharp" variant did come first.

Natneyi1 votes

Same thing in the Act II flavor text, "The card sharp skids to a halt..."

Adalore1 votes

In addition to being correct as mentioned by others, TF literally thwaks you with the edge of his, while magically enhanced, cards. So you better hope they have a bit of an edge to them. :)

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