- the mother-in-law register
- avoidance of using any words sounding like the names of the recently deceased
Some cool things along these lines could be:
- taboos based on location (say, in an ethnicity much into sea-faring, boat vs. mainland vs. islands could easily be such taboo-triggering locations)
- taboos triggered or rendered powerless by rites of passage (old, in that e.g. Damin essentially kind of is a bit like that)
- taboos triggered by astronomical things
- taboos triggered by weather - rain, snow, snow-cover, storms, ...
- taboos triggered by pregnancies or especially by miscarriages?
- taboos triggered by music
Some things these taboos could trigger could be:
- avoidance of words on phonological grounds (the Australian taboo)
- replacing some grammatical markers by a less detailed system
- an avoidance with some actual weird implications: avoiding statements where certain kinds of evidentials are required. How about during music, avoid hearsay. Or, near pregnant women, avoid guesswork information. Or, avoid first-person experientials during the days before and after the full moon.
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