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Proof you played, even if it doesn't prove you played well.
means A card or sheet for recording the points, hits, or results of a game as it happens.
from A straightforward compound of 'score' (a tally of points, from Old Norse 'skor,' a notch or mark cut to count things) and 'card' (from Latin 'charta,' sheet or paper). The word shows up in the 19th century alongside the rise of organized spectator sports like cricket and baseball, when fans and scorers needed a physical object to track who was winning, out, or ahead — literally a card for keeping score.
- origin
- Golf popularized it before business ruined the word
- psychology
- people remember the number, forget the context
- corporate use
- turns judgment into something that looks objective
- golf rule
- you sign it wrong, you get disqualified