Andrzej Mierzejewski Jan 19, 2017:

BTW "drawbar" isn't correct when speaking of horse carts. "Shaft" or "pole" should be used such as in http://www.equineheritagemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/... .

"Traces" are the components that transfer the pulling force. The shaft/pole only determines the travel direction.

Andrzej Mierzejewski Jan 19, 2017:

@Robin My pleasure. :-)

A.G. Jan 18, 2017:

Usunąłem swój ostatni post Pomyliłem (nie ja jeden) 'marriage' z 'mariage' (66 jest jednym z wariantów). Coachmen playing Schnapsen ma IMO smaczek oryginału (nie wszyscy wiedzą, o co chodzi).

Very often people are playing Schnapsen using a mixture of the soft and sharp Schnapsen rules - because of this we show a recap of the main soft Schnapsen ...

Robin Gill (asker) Jan 18, 2017:

Many thanks for the helpful discussion. After some digging about I discovered the historical English word "thill", meaning drawbar. But I think "coachmen playing cards" is the best way to go.

Andrzej Mierzejewski Jan 18, 2017:

I can add that the adjective "dyszlowy" could (just a possibility) mean a special version for coachmen. IMO no need to put such information in the translation.

A.G. Jan 18, 2017:

sixty six/Schnapsen Myślę, ze to jet bliższe (popularny zechcyk).

Rules of Card Games: Schnapsen
https://www.pagat.com/marriage/schnaps.html
Tłumaczenie strony
24 sie 2016 - Rules for Schnapsen, the popular Austrian variant of the two-player card game 66.

Andrzej Mierzejewski Jan 18, 2017:

And seriously: for this case, I'd translate: mariasz dyszlowy = Coachmen playing cards.

I wonder how the artist was able to guess the game name. ;-)

geopiet Jan 18, 2017:

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariasz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariage_(card_game)#

Andrzej Mierzejewski Jan 18, 2017:

Na imię mam Andrzej, nie Pan Andrzej.
:-)

magdadh Jan 18, 2017:

@ Pan Andrzej

Rzeczywiście przy bliższym spojrzeniu, dyszla brak!! Może zapomnieli chłopaki z tego excitementu karcianego?

Andrzej Mierzejewski Jan 18, 2017:

IMO that's a good translation.

The only problem is that I can't see any dyszel (EN drawbar) at the cart in this picture. There should be one between the horses. Maybe, the artist was short of time. :-)

Typical Polish horse carts with a single drawbar look like this: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pollubel/rural/cart.htm - as you can see, the drawbar protrudes by a half of metre or so in front of the horse's head. Hard to overlook.

The word "dyszel" evolved from German "Deichsel".

I dont't play cards, so no comments on "mariasz".

magdadh Jan 18, 2017:

Dyszlowy... I suspect it's situational - as in "playing mariasz at the drawbar/shaft", though the whole drawbar (shaft?) part lacks the old time vibe of the dyszel..