Talk:Jinx

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Is this ever going to be an encyclopedia article, or just a wiktionary entry? If the latter, it should be on the wiktionary instead. --Robert Merkel 15:22 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * I made it because the article on amulet mentioned it as the opposite item from an amulet, and it seemed to me that there ought to be another article here for completeness' sake. It does go slightly beyond a definition, pointing to an example from popular culture.  -- IHCOYC 15:35 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Odysseus?

There's--quite frankly--too much about the Jinx kids game in this... Sure it belongs here--as a sub-heading--but this amount of frivolous information (Do we really need to know that California Jinx players have to hold their urine?) lessens the value of the rest of the article. 193.255.108.20 08:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Just a anecdotal comment, part of my personal family history has been the telling that Allen Sangree (a great uncle of mine), a sports journalist from around the turn of the last century may have been one of the first people to use the word Jinx to mean someone who brought bad luck. CheyenneWills 18:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Removed cleanup tag
I removed a cleanup tag from this article in the process of rearranging its contents. I don't see any specific issues raised on this talk page that seem to require it; the article is reasonably well referenced, and I did do some rearranging of the material there. Those things are too quick to be tossed around and too slow to disappear. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:42, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

An object/ person that brings bad luck. Ex:(Abu Ahmad).
Who? Is that a prank or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.72.138.191 (talk) 14:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

(Redirected from Jinx (children's game))
a comment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.168.191 (talk) 15:35, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

etymology
and where do you think Captain Jinx might have got his name from? Wryneck in Greek is ἴυγξ (the Latin came after). See Pindar Pythian 4.213-8, Nemean 4.35, and Theocritus 2 passim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.70.134 (talk) 11:39, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * You are correct, of course. I've added the Greek word as the ultimate origin.  Some people seem to think that the modern word has a different origin, but I can't really see much merit in their argument.    D b f i r s   07:53, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

League of Legends Reference
This is already referenced in the disambiguation page and I suggest removing it from this unrelated article, otherwise surely we should be listing all characters that have this name. 31.205.21.129 (talk) 12:08, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * This was done, and I accidentally reverted the removal, so I've re-removed it.   D b f i r s   07:44, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Early nautical usage?
There seems to be a claim that the modern sense was used historically (pre-1911?) for ships. I haven't found any evidence for this, but if it is true, could we have a citation please ? I've no argument with the later usage as applied to ships, and apologise for accidentally removing it along with a reversion. We are both trying to improve the article, so we shouldn't be removing each other's referenced material.  D b f i r s   22:04, 12 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I can find no verb "to jynx" in any dictionary, so I propose to remove or rephrase the unreferenced original research relating to historical ships in the lead. Can anyone find where this claim comes from?  There is, of course, the modern verb "to jinx" which is well-attested.   D b f i r s   22:10, 23 February 2017 (UTC)