> I need to use a Chinese whisper as a teaching aid in a talk I am giving on communications.
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> I only know one - the famous war whisper -
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> "Send reinforcements, we're going to advance"
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> Which became -
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> "Send three and fourpence (remember this is a pre-decimalisation whisper!) we're going to a dance"
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> Can anyone help me out with a good whisper?

Sure. I understand one of the classic ones was "a pox on both your houses" becoming something like "a box for both your louses". I don't know if you'd consider that a spectacularly 'good' example, however.

Incidentally, isn't the term "Chinese whisper" considered passé in multicultural parts of the country? No one knew what I was talking about when I mentioned the phrase. We call it "Broken Telephone" instead. Chinese dialects would be some of the few monosyllabic languages that would be the *least* affected by this type of verbal chain distortion. Maybe we just don't 'get' it up here in Eastern Canada. "It's all Greek to me". :-)