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Do the Chinese call it English Whispers?
by protomolecule 2y ago
Do the Chinese call it English Whispers?
- ahoka 2y agoIt’s all Greek to them.
- tessierashpool 2y agoChinese-Americans, at least, call it a game of Telephone, like everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English. We call it “Telephone” because “Chinese Whispers” not only sounds racist, it is also super confusing. You need a lot of cultural context to understand the particular way in which Chinese whispers would be different from any other set of whispers.
- tessierashpool 2y agoI happened to re-read this, and to be clear, I'm not Chinese-American. the "we" there means "everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English."