i've just been thinkin...

[djkranefly]

does anyone know the answer to this question?

why IS gossiping and spreading rumours refered to as chinese whispers?!?!?!?!
any takers?!

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[mathewsalmon]

coz wheneva people gossip and spread rumours mostly everything is made up and just hear say so it ends up being wrong.......which relates to when u play chinese whispers, by the end person the answer is usually wrong... :)

i think that makes sense

[djkranefly]

i know what chinese whispers is. but what i'm saying is WHY is it called 'chinese' whispers?

[rimmeraze]

i actualy know the answer to your silly babo quiestion its because in the days long past in anchiant china messages used to be passed by mouth because of vering symbols in the writen language acroos the and so when one ruler wanted to communicate with another he would send out a runner with a message the messange would then tell another messanger down the line and so on untill it reached its destination. the problem being thats words got changed and moved around so the message was not how it started .

since this is the same way rumouse and gossip start and pass on thats y people refer to it as chines wispers

ty ty very much