What is it called when a story changes from person to person?
¸.•*´`*♥ ♥Melissa♥ ♥*´`*•.¸ asked:
What is it called when you tell a person a story and that person tells the story to someone else, and the story changes??
Damn you smarta**es lol..I mean seriously the term for it.
What is it called when you tell a person a story and that person tells the story to someone else, and the story changes??
Damn you smarta**es lol..I mean seriously the term for it.
Where I grew up it was called ‘Telephone.’ I’ve seen it called ‘Chinese (another word)’ here on Y!A.
I’m not sure if you mean in real life or a game usually school children play.
The game is called ‘Chinese Whispers’
In real life you could say that a story changes on the ‘grapevine or it is ‘gossip’
It’s also called “grapevine” (as in hearing something “through the grapevine”).
Oral storytelling…becomes folklore later on. Also gossip, word of mouth, urban legends…
An elaboration of the truth.
When a story changes it is considered a ‘rumor’.
Gossip is a conversation about personal matters: conversation about the personal details of other people’s lives, whether rumor or fact, especially when malicious.
Rumor is an unverified report: a generally circulated story, report, or statement without facts to confirm its truth. It also refers to idle speculation: general talk or opinions of uncertain reliability.