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To shred a message until even its sender wouldn't recognize the survivor.
means To distort or confuse words and meaning, usually by mangling them in transmission or retelling.
from From Arabic gharbala, to sift, via Italian garbellare — once meaning to sort spices and remove the junk, it flipped over centuries from cleaning up a message to ruining it.
Spice tradeOriginally meant sifting impurities from spices.
Meaning flipWent from purifying to corrupting.
Telephone gameGarbling is its entire business model.