Additional speaking tabus — Mythoi

Motif

Additional speaking tabus.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Other speaking tabus. · view the constellation · filed as C499

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Filed under Other speaking tabus.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: announcing death directly Tabu: complimenting

Filed beside it

Substitutes for tabu expressions Tabu: expressing astonishment at marvel. (Cf. C411, C423.2.)Tabu: speaking to strangers Tabu: thanking (under certain circumstances)Tabu: cursing Tabu: using any except one certain phrase Tabu: using obscene language Tabu: speaking to the dead Speaking tabu: the one forbidden expression