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Example sentences for: taboos

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Language taboos seem to be persistent in American English--more so than in British English, where, although one cannot say that anything goes, one encounters more dirty language on television (in particular), especially after the so-called “watershed” hour of nine o'clock (which some are trying to put off till ten o'clock).
The fact is that English is, idiomatically, an extremely subtle language, with many taboos, particularly in the area of positive/negative statements and degrees of affirmation and negation.
One might be led to think that it is always open (silly) season on the language in the US; but we cannot ignore the seriousness of religious taboos on some aspects of language and writing, as the fatwah issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie because of a book.
Bali’s contact with the Dutch was restricted to providing slaves — mainly Balinese who had broken the rajas’ laws or priests’ taboos — and soldiers for the army of the United Dutch East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC).
I pursued the investigation in a bar, where verbal taboos are often relaxed.