This is starting to get that air about it like when the teacher would whisper a phrase to the student sitting in the first seat in a classroom. Then each had to whisper the same to the next until it got all the way around the room. Remember how much the two differed and was never the same?
I remember that game—it was called “Telephone”— we would all laugh when the last listener got to say what they’d heard because it was always so far off the mark.