Chinese whispers

English Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Chinese whispers.wav Southern England Noun - en chiefly UK games A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbour, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase. en a whisper down the lane broken telephone operator pass it down Russian scandal telephone<q:Canada, US> telephone game en The New Era in Home and School 1965 A. J. Grainger The Bullring New Education Fellowship 216 London 46 Some members made it clear that they were not going to participate at all, because it was the last Bullring, and brought in books to read or played games like ‘Chinese Whispers’, totally ignoring any remarks that were made. en 2014 Darian Leader Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide Icon Books Ltd 9781848318793 This is no doubt the reason why children play Chinese Whispers. One child whispers a message to another and it travels around the circle of children, only to be revealed by the last member of the chain. en figurative A situation where something is changed or misunderstood as a result of passing through successive people or processes. en telephone<q:Canada, US> en The Jewish Quarterly 1999 Tom Owen Israel in South Lebanon Jewish Literary Trust 15 London 43 Spring 1999 The UN would rather not be associated with blowing mosques to smithereens in a part of the world where propaganda is everywhere, and information spreads like Chinese whispers. en 2004 Helen Walters 200% Cotton: New T-Shirt Graphics 141 Rightly famed for their year 2000 project, RMX//A Visual Remix Project, for which they remixed each others' work in a Chinese Whispers-style process, they have also printed T-shirts with their eye-catching graphics Translations game in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbour, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred Afrikaans: af telefoontjie Arabic: ar هَاتِف عَرَبِيّ m, ar هَاتِف لَاسِلْكِيّ m Egyptian Arabic: arz تليفون مكسور m telefõn maksūr Armenian: hy փչացած հեռախոս Bulgarian: bg развален телефон m Catalan: ca telèfon m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 以訛傳訛 Mandarin: cmn 傳話遊戲 chuánhuà yóuxì Czech: cs tichá pošta f, cs telefon m Dutch: nl doorfluistertje n Finnish: fi rikkinäinen puhelin, fi juoruämmä French: fr téléphone arabe m German: de Stille Post f, de Flüsterpost f Central Franconian: gmw-cfr Stėlle Poßß f, gmw-cfr Stille Poß f Greek: el χαλασμένο τηλέφωνο n Hebrew: he טֶלֶפוֹן שָׁבוּר m télefon shavúr Hindi: hi कानाफूसी का खेल m, hi कानाफूसी खेल Hungarian: hu kínai suttogás Icelandic: is hvísluleikur m Irish: ga cogarnach Shíneach f Italian: it telefono senza fili m, it telegrafo senza fili m Japanese: ja 伝言ゲーム でんごんゲーム, dengon gēmu Korean: ko 옮겨 말하기 Macedonian: mk расипан телефон m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb hviskelek Polish: pl głuchy telefon m Portuguese: pt telefone sem fio m, pt telefone estragado Romanian: ro telefonul fără fir n Russian: ru испо́рченный телефо́н m, ru сло́манный телефо́н m, ru глухо́й телефо́н Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh глухи телефони m-p, sh глуви телефони m-p Latin: sh gluhi telefoni m-p, sh gluvi telefoni m-p Slovak: sk tichá pošta f, sk telefón m Spanish: es teléfono descompuesto m, es teléfono estropeado m, Chile es teléfono m Swedish: sv viskleken c Tatar: tt ватык телефон Turkish: tr kulaktan kulağa Ukrainian: uk зіпсо́ваний телефо́н m Vietnamese: vi tam sao thất bản Further reading