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A childhood word game

were kids yeah it was longer than just jinx but yeah um so it was just kind of fun and if you said the same word at the same time as someone else sometimes you would also say yo...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Basic sentences and descriptionsSubtitles: en

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that's when we

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were kids yeah it was longer than just

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jinx but yeah um so it was just kind of

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fun and if you said the same word at the

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same time as someone else sometimes you

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would also say you pinch poke you pinch

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the person and you poke the person yeah

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not very nice you owe me a coke so like

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coca-cola like a drink

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jinx

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jinx

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all full of jinxes today the other jinx

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is um when you don't want to jinx

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something so

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maybe you're saying oh i've

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um so maybe you go to a job interview so

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you're trying to get a job you have an

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interview is that meeting where you're

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trying to get the job you're introducing

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yourself you're asking other people

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or you're asking the employer about the

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job

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and maybe afterwards

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you might be talking to your friend on

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the phone

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and they say hey

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how did the job interview go

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and you might say

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um i don't want to jinx it

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so maybe the job interview is this is

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what you mean you mean the job interview

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went well

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but you're afraid to say that sort of

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out of super

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out of superstition

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so um superstition meaning that if you

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say the job interview went well

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that you're speaking too quickly you're

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speaking too soon

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and that you won't get the job because

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you said that

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so that's to drink something pretty

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advanced

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but yeah there it is for our advanced

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viewers out there

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okay and then so man becomes men so one

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man

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two men

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woman one woman

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two

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women

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yeah you're welcome gen t

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um all right so should we move on to

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numbers yeah let's do numbers

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um again if you don't have so this is

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just a review if you need

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a pen or a pencil something to write

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with

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some paper i have my paper ready to go

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go ahead and you can grab that now if

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you need it

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so numbers we can do

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uh maybe 0 to 20 and then just the tens

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up through um hi captain t always with

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us

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one of our top lingoni fans

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um

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all right so zero to 20

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um here we go so zero

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1

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2

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3

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4

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5

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6

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7

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8

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10. do you want to do 11 to 20 sure

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