Thank you Fred for reminding us of the game we called "Telefon". I had
forgotten it. Now I will play it with my grandchildren.
Mimi
On 9/26/10 2:09 PM, "ALFRED SCHNEIDER" <asfred_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> After seeing the original, it is quite clear:"Bauhandwerkersaal" translates
> to "Hall of the construction artisans".
> What the Cz-L contributors did reminded me of a children's game that we
> played in the Bukowina, called Telefon or Post:
>
> Several children would sit next to each other and the one at the end would
> whisper a word in his neighbor's ear who would repeat what he heard to the
> next one until it reached the last one. This child would loudly say what he
> or she heard. It was usually different from the original.
>
> Seems some of our Genossen (this for the one-word translators) got caught.
>
> Fred Schneider
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