Short takes: Blind-man's bluff

[Amy West]

Victor wrote:

>So there may be at least two things going on here. There is the
>development of a new game with its own terminology that drops an
>eggcorn into an old game with fairly well established terminology AND
>there is evolution of the new game itself, which adds extra meaning to
>the terms as the game evolves. It seems that even the original OED
>fell for the eggcorn in its time, but it had help, because of a small
>dialectal variation. The two citations under n.2 1. should be
>separated for sure--they are historically unrelated and do not
>correspond to the same meaning (Lemon notwithstanding).

When you're talking about "development of a new game" and "evolution
of the new game" are you referring to poker or are you saying that
"bluff" was the new game?

---Amy West

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