Chinese Whispers Term

Discussions center on the term 'Chinese Whispers' (the game Telephone), its meaning, cultural implications, poor translations, Chinese puns, dialects, and pronunciations.

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jumelles Sep 29, 2018 View on HN

Please just say "Chinese" :)

londons_explore Jan 27, 2022 View on HN

Looks auto-translated. I'd guess the original Chinese wordlist contained more nuance.

gaius May 27, 2009 View on HN

What else would "Chinese" mean!?

bringking Sep 9, 2014 View on HN

whats up with the Chinese translations?

_nivlac_ Feb 21, 2025 View on HN

I think it's a play on the Chinese language having Traditional/ Simplified versions. I'm choosing to take this repo as tongue-in-cheek, which is hard to really determine online...

VHRanger Apr 3, 2024 View on HN

The chinese name may be a red herring, as it's mixing mandarin and cantonese namtes.

OJFord May 26, 2025 View on HN

Is this missing a sentence like 'there is a saying in mandarin:'?

nicbou Aug 12, 2022 View on HN

What is Chinese supposed to mean in this context?

chillacy Jan 11, 2019 View on HN

It’s not uncommon for a chinese speaker to say something and for the other speaker to say something like “which X, is it X with Y radical?”, or “is it X as in ”. This happens especially with names.

arch_hunter Oct 2, 2010 View on HN

What did you mean that Chinese to say? because it came out along the lines of "at China's stuff."