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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Pulling the wool over your eyes #85307 11/01/2002 2:35 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Does anyone recognise the terms carder and carding? I'm not talking about the well-known wool-processing uses of the words but in a more modern context. I've only ever seen them in an Indonesian context but italicised as non-Indonesian words (for example http://www.detikinet.com/net/2002/10/02/20021002-132016.shtml ). A carder, as far as I can make out, is someone who commits credit card fraud over the internet using stolen numbers or numbers from stolen cards, and carding is the practice. Are these words in more general use and I just haven't noticed? Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Pulling the wool over your eyes #85308 11/01/2002 3:11 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada "To card" is also used in a bar context, as in, "They must have thought I looked too young to drink, because they carded me." Or is this just a North Americanism? ("I got carded the other night - it made my day!") Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Pulling the wool over your eyes #85309 11/01/2002 10:12 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England I think it's just local Indonesian terminology, Bingley. We call it "stripping cards", so I guess some who does it would be a "stripper" and the action itself would be "stripping". Obviously, there are some slight problems with using these terms out of anything resembling context ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Pulling the wool over your eyes #85310 11/01/2002 11:14 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 some slight problems with using these terms out of anything resembling context Then there was the want ad in the paper for an offset stripper. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Pulling the wool over your eyes #85311 11/02/2002 11:52 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. jimthedog enthusiast jimthedog enthusiast Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. I've heard of the phenomenon, but only ever heard the usage of the word refering to wool. "You'll never pull the wool over my eyes. Cashmir, maybe, but never wool." Thurston Howell III Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Pulling the wool over your eyes #85312 11/02/2002 2:59 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 I have come across the usage, although not for a large number of years, to mean "playing a card game." e.g. - " Are you coming carding down at the Boot & shoe tonight?" "Owd Alf's a champion carder, tha knows." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Pulling the wool over your eyes #85313 11/03/2002 3:32 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 161 Aberdeen, Scotland vika member vika member Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 161 Aberdeen, Scotland I think it's just local Indonesian terminology and Russian as well. I red in Belorussian newspapers that two Belorussian men were accused of carding - they bought things like notebooks using stolen credit card numbers on eBay. we simply don't have the word for it in Russian. English is a very economic language. that's whty a lot of computer terms made their way to Russian - web, e-mail, carding... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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