Question of the Day #1105

What's in a name? A game of Broken Telephone

From the headline of this article at DW.com.

  上記の文で、Broken Telephoneの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "Broken Telephone" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〔ささやき声で伝える〕伝言ゲーム◆運動場やパーティーなどで行う子どもの遊び。物語を伝えたり、絵を見てその内容を伝えたりする。最後の子どもは聴いた物語を再現したり、元の絵を描こうとしたりする。

なお、broken telephoneの他にRussian scandal, Chinese whispers, whisper down the lane, operator, grapevine, gossip, don't drink the milk, secret message, the messenger game, pass the messageとも言う。

 

Answer

According to raamdev.com:

For those who are not familiar, broken telephone, also called Chinese Whispers, is a game in which one person whispers a message to another and the message gets passed through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group.

 

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