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A kibitzer is a non-participant person, offering (often unwanted) advice or commentary. This Yiddish term is used in Contract bridge, chess, Go, and many other games. Kibitz is also a term referring to circular commenting. One person comments, then the other person comments. A back-and-forth conversation outside the main issue, where the people having the conversation are not directly participating. In computer science the term is the title of a programming language〔(kibitz man page from expect.sourceforge.net )〕 released by NIST, as a sub-project of the Expect programming language, that allows two users to share one shell session, taking turns typing one after another. There is a 1930 film called ''The Kibitzer''〔(''The Kibitzer'' (1930) )〕 which is based on the 1929 three-act comedy play by the same name.〔(Rico's End: A Short Biography of Edward G. Robinson )〕 Jane Jacobs describes a kibitzer as someone who keeps a look-out on a street, and seeing suspicious activity, intervenes to help the victim. In this way, kibitzers help keep streets safe.〔''The Death and Life of Great American Cities'' by Jane Jacobs〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kibitzer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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