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Naming Taboo

3 points| oboes | 2 years ago |en.wikipedia.org

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Jun8|2 years ago

This is a fascinating subject. Chinese naming taboo focuses on emperor names; there's also a more general practice, common I'm Aboriginal and Bantu languages, where the sounds from in-laws's names cannot be uttered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance_speech