What is it called when a story changes from person to person?

Story & Character Development
¸.•*´`*♥ ♥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.

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6 Responses to “What is it called when a story changes from person to person?”

  1. momomo says:

    Where I grew up it was called ‘Telephone.’ I’ve seen it called ‘Chinese (another word)’ here on Y!A.

  2. i am a tree says:

    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’

  3. Bad Kitty! says:

    It’s also called “grapevine” (as in hearing something “through the grapevine”).

  4. Maggie says:

    Oral storytelling…becomes folklore later on. Also gossip, word of mouth, urban legends…

  5. holly says:

    An elaboration of the truth.

  6. Philip says:

    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.

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