The inquisitive journalist strikes again

[oloriel]

- However, now I'm curious.

What words of truce did you use when you were kids? As in, you were playing tag, and someone's shoelaces became undone - what would they say so the others wouldn't take advantage of that, but allow them to tie their laces again? Or someone found something they'd want everyone to see, so the game had to be stopped (a truce called) - what word would be used to stop the game, then?

Children in the North-west of England (and the Green Knight, hence the question) used barlay (or barley), apparently, which is of course a bastardized form of parlay.

We used "Spielstop" (meaning game-stop), fairly straight-forward.

So. What's your word of truce?

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- Allerdings bin ich jetzt neugierig.

Was habt ihr als Kinder benutzt, um beim Spielen einen Waffenstillstand auszurufen? Wenn ihr zum Beispiel Fangen gespielt habt, und jemandem sind die Schnürsenkel aufgegangen, was hat derjenige dann gesagt, damit das Spiel unterbrochen wurde und die anderen seine Schwäche (oder sein Schnürsenkelzubinden) nicht ausnutzten? Oder wenn jemand etwas fand, das er unbedingt sofort allen zeigen musste, so dass das Spiel angehalten werden musste (ein Waffenstillstand halt) - womit hättet ihr das gemacht?

Im Nordwesten Englands haben die Kinder (und der Grüne Ritter, weswegen die Frage natürlich aufkommt) offenbar barlay (bzw. barley) gesagt, was natürlich eine Bastardform von parlay ist.

Wir haben "Spielstop" gesagt, ganz unkreativ.

Und ihr?


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Comments

[dawn_felagund]

Hmmm...I think we used "Time out!" which is very official, as it is used in professional sports over here, complete with the hands made into a little "T" to make it that much more official, I guess.

Though tag wasn't a game we played much. We were much more into Hide-and-Seek with Clues, which was a game invented by my cousins, my sister, and me where the seekers had to follow a series of clues to find the hiders. (And Nintendo.) We were nerdy children. :^P