Re:What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
by detaro on Friday October 05, 2018 @07:05AM
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Not a native speaker: Does it have additional meaning to the reference to the children's game where everyone whispers to their neighbor, passing a message along? If not, isn't that also known as the "telephone game"?
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Re:What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
by KineticLensman on Friday October 05, 2018 @08:20AM
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I was going to reply "I don't know, it's all Greek to me" but then decided that was not a good idea. So, [0] says
> Chinese whispers is the British term for what is known as the telephone game in the United States
and then lists several other names for the same game. I've also met people who when discussing confusing messages say "send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance", which is a result of 'Chinese whispers' being applied to the input "send reinforcements, we're going to advance". The reference to the pre-decimal coinage ('three and fourpence', i.e. three shillings and four pence, approx £0.17) in this old phrase shows how long the concept has been around in British English (we decimalised in 1971).