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	Taboo - LoveToKnow 1911
		The word " taboo " or its dialectical forms are found throughout Polynesia; in Melanesia the term is tambu; in various parts of Malaysia and the East Indies pantang, bobosso, pamalli, andc.; in Madagascar fadi includes taboo; in North America the Dakota term wakan bears a similar meaning.
		Taboo is perhaps derived from ta, to mark, and pu, an adverb of intensity.
		With funerary taboos may be compared taboos of warriors both on and after an expedition, taboos of hunters during the chase and especially after killing a dangerous animal, taboos of cannibals, and on participants in all other ceremonies which involve contact with death or the dead.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Taboo (3202 words)

	TABOO (also written ta... - Online Information article about TABOO (also written ta...
		discharge are too weak to resist it; the result of a violation of a taboo depends partly on the strength of the magical influence inherent in the taboo object or person, partly on the strength of the opposing mana of the violator of the taboo.
		Obligation.—In proportion as a taboo becomes a custom and its sanctions fall into the background and are forgotten, its obligations thus transformed are one source of the categorical imperative, the distinguishing feature of which is that it is non-rational and instinctive.
		Taboos of the Sick.—Both disease and death are unnatural in the eyes of the savage; they are often the result of the magic of some enemy; but they may also be the result of an infraction of a taboo.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/TABOO_also_written_tapu_and_tab.html (5845 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Taboo - The Game Of Unspeakable Fun at Epinions.com
		Taboo is a simple family game which can take you to the limits of ecstasy and despair within 60 seconds.
		Taboo is a simple word game but can be as exciting and thrilling as any other that you would have played.
		Taboo has tried to by pass this problem by offering more words in the new extended edition and in their electronic Platinum edition.
	www.epinions.com /content_46633881220 (944 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for taboo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		taboo or tabu, prohibition of an act or the use of an object or word under pain of punishment.
		Malle's motion pictures are noted for their nonjudgmental approach to often taboo material, for which he sought to cause the audience to reevaluate its attitudes.
		The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=taboo (542 words)

	The Nuclear Taboo by Verna Gehring
		Taboos may be as old as humankind itself, but some taboos are less enduring than others.
		Culturally specific taboos contribute to the identity of an individual as a member of a group, but the generalized taboo unites the individual to the entire human family and helps define humanity.
		But it is not a taboo that prohibits use of nuclear means because atomic weapons are evil, because the possibility of nuclear warfare is inconceivable, or because the authority that decides on their deployment surely must be mad.
	www.puaf.umd.edu /IPPP/Summer00/nuclear_taboo.htm (3018 words)

	The First Taboo: How Menstrual Taboos Reflect and Sustain Women's Internalized Oppression
		It comes from the Polynesian language, in which the word taboo is a combination of the word ta which means 'to mark,' with the word bu which is simply an adjective of intensity.
		One theory on the origin of the word taboo states that the origin of the word is the Polynesian word tupua, which means sacred and magical, and that it was often applied specifically to menstruation (Taylor, 1988; Delaney, Lupton and Toth, 1976).
		Other taboo rituals/superstitions that are performed in Western cultures are often not recognized as relating to menstruation, although that is the origin of these rituals.
	home.comcast.net /~theennead/bean/cultural.htm (1678 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The word taboo, also spelled tabu, is one of the very rare words in English that comes from Tongan, the Polynesian language of Tonga, an island east of Fiji.
		Taboo is also relatively rare in that we know exactly when and how it entered the English language: it first appears in Captain Cook's Voyage to the Pacific in 1777.
		The word is also found as a noun meaning 'a prohibition or interdiction of something, esp. on religious grounds'; 'the system or practice of setting things apart as sacred or forbidden for general use'; and 'exclusion from social relations; ostracism'.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990913 (241 words)

	Taboo (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taboo is a word guessing party game commercially available from Hasbro.
		The playing team receives one point for correct guesses, one penalty point if "taboo" words are spoken, one penalty point if the giver passes on more than one card.
		Description or definition of the given word is often a foolproof strategy, but advanced players aiming for speed also make judicious use of the BLANK strategy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taboo_(game) (756 words)

	NES Player - Special Features
		The beginning word 'taboo' itself is defined by Dictionary.com as: "Excluded or forbidden from use, approach, or mention," as an adj.
		Taboo, if successful in anything, is luring adolescents into subjects he or she may not be able to handle mentally or emotionally.
		This is the one part of Taboo where the player feels connected to the "game." Whether or not that player is "serious" to it or not, the player knows that he or she consciously has given up personal information.
	www.nesplayer.com /features/taboo (3872 words)

	taboo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Taboos are commonly placed on a clan’s ancestral guardian, called the totem.
		The breaking of a taboo usually requires extermination of the offender or some sort of ceremonial purification in order to remove the taint from the community.
		Often the mana of a taboo is so great that the offender will suffer punishment, even death, merely through fear of its powers.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ta/taboo.html (224 words)

	Stefan Marti and Keith Emnett - Daboo - Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As Daboo must not use these words, it cannot repeat the guess, but is allowed to mention that it is a word which it can’t use to describe the word to guess.
		This might be important information for the user as taboo words are usually words which are within the first associations of the word which is to guess.
		As the word to guess is a single word without a specific context, it just doesn’t matter if the words would change the truth value in a specific context.
	web.media.mit.edu /~stefanm/daboo/Daboo.html (5428 words)

	Chaos-In-Motion: Taboo Words
		The intersection of the word f*** and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education.
		The taboo is so strong that it compels many to engage in self-censorship.
		Taboo is then institutionalized through law, yet at the same time is in tension with other identifiable legal rights.
	chaosinmotion.blogspot.com /2006/10/taboo-words.html (335 words)

	The Big One - The Boston Globe
		It might be the most explosive word in the English language, the nuclear weapon in the arsenal of expletives.
		But she says the word took a step toward more widespread usage in the 1960s, when it acquired a political context, as in "[Expletive] the pigs," to refer to police officers.
		Morrow speculates that one reason the word may be less taboo today, especially among young people, is that the sexual activity to which it is linked is also less taboo.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/02/12/the_big_one (1306 words)

	Game Zombies: Review of Taboo
		A one minute timer is flipped, and the clue-giver must describe the word at the top of the card to their team.
		If your team guesses the word, and there is still time remaining, the clue-giver takes the next card in the stack and must describe that clue, too.
		The word is taken away, and a new word is drawn.
	www.angelfire.com /games/zombiereviews/reviews/taboorvw.html (413 words)

	One Stop English \| Team
		After the Word Taboo slips of paper have been completed, the papers are placed into a pool and volunteers are selected from each group.
		Each volunteer's role is to take any of the Word Taboo papers from the other groups and try to get the whole class to guess the word by describing it in words and sentences.
		The volunteers are not allowed to say any of the five taboo words, to mime the words, to make sound effects, to sing tunes that relate to the words or to spell the words.
	www.onestopenglish.com /section.asp?docid=145343 (317 words)

	euphemism
		The primary example of taboo words requiring the use of a euphemism are the unspeakable names for a deity, such as Persephone, Hecate, Nemesis or Yahweh.
		To alter the pronunciation or spelling of a taboo word (such as a swear word) to form a euphemism is known as taboo deformation.
		The word manure, referring to animal feces used as fertilizer for plants, literally means "worked with the hands", alluding to the mixing of manure with earth.
	www.synonym.org /euphemism.html (2500 words)

	HDCF 580 Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The goal of the first player is to think of such a tricky word that the audience is hanged before figuring out the word.
		Instead of just randomly putting words on - you could categorize them by row and column (i.e., across rows the words must begin with the same letter and down five columns each column must be one of the food groups).
		A student or the teacher calls out vocabulary words one at a time and students then find them on their board and mark them as being called.
	www.montana.edu /hhunts/courses/580/games.htm (2375 words)

	Taboo Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Taboo is played by two teams of at least two players each.
		The problem is, once you look at the taboo words you tend to get stuck on them and it's difficult to knock your thought processes onto a different track.
		Beware, though-- Celebrity Taboo requires a knowledge of who the celebrities are and is substantially harder than the regular edition.
	www.gamereport.com /tgr4/taboo.html (543 words)

	Catchword Naming Techniques \| Glossary \| Naming Techniques Naming Technique
		For example, the word "smog" is made up of the words "smoke" and "fog," and the name Petopia is made up of the words "pet" and "utopia." Although comparatively rare in English, this process is a common means of word formation in several language families (e.g.
		Certain Japanese words which became taboo after World War II reflected the contemporary view of their nation as unique in the world - shimakunikanjo, which means roughly 'the unique spirit of being an island nation' - is an example of this type of vocabulary.
		Taboo Word A word to be avoided because it is sacred, politically incorrect, vulgar, or otherwise inappropriate.
	www.catch-word.com /glossary.html (3863 words)

	Taboo Board Game - How To Play
		The word at the top of the card is the Guess word the Cluegiver is trying to get his or her teammates to say.
		The five words below the Guess word are the Taboo words the Clue-giver CANNOT say when giving clues for the Guess word.
		If a Taboo word is used by the Clue-giver or if any of the RULES FOR CLUES are broken, the buzzer is sounded by the opposing team.
	www.centralconnector.com /GAMES/taboo.html (1169 words)

	The Tattoo - Beware forbidden words
		If the clue-giver says one of the taboo words on the card, or even part of a word on the card, the point goes to the opposing team.
		Taboo is great for most ages, and can be played for any length of time.
		Taboo is an entertaining and exciting way to expand your vocabulary while getting to know people in a group setting.
	home.comcast.net /~majerus-collins/games-taboo.htm (478 words)

	Amazon.com: Taboo: Toys & Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		You start to memorize what the guess words and taboo words are and then you pretty much have a huge advantage over newbie players because you know the descriptions you'll use ahead of time -- a kind of "been there done that" problem.
		Taboo is one of the games that almost always comes off the shelf whenever we have a game night (a few times a month) because everyone enjoys it.
		This is a team game in which one person from the team gives clues as to which word is on the card without saying one of the six taboo words.
	www.amazon.com /Milton-Bradley-Taboo/dp/B00000DMBJ (2046 words)

	Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Unspeakable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This word for our female 'sex' is an extraordinarily powerful reminder of who we are and where we came from.
		Ms Greer points out that an alternative word such as "vagina" is wholly unsatisfactory to describe female genitalia, and refers only to a specific internal section of the genitalia, not the "fun bits".
		The taboo on this word will only be broken when women start using it freely.
	www.eamonn.com /2006/02/the_last_taboo_of_the_english.htm (2050 words)

	Scripture/Gospel Taboo Game
		The basic idea is that you have two teams or at least 4 people: one person gives the clues to a person on THEIR OWN team who tries to guess the "taboo word" within a time limit.
		The other team is there to make sure that the clue giver doesn't say either the "taboo word" or any of the supporting words for that clue.
		We used any word we could think of that had to do with the LDS church or the gospel: people, places (Jerusalem, Zion...), events (first vision, creation...), gospel concepts (repentance, forgiveness, faith...), gospel words (immersion, genealogy, sabbath, murmur...), things (iron rod, liahona, arc of the covenant.
	www.christysclipart.com /taboo.html (536 words)

	Taboo Activity
		The object of the game is for the clue-giver to describe the "guess" word on the very top of the card without saying any of the "taboo" words or phrases printed below.
		If the clue-giver says a "taboo" word or passes a card and goes on to the next, the team loses a point.
		Photocopy enough sets of taboo cards so four or five games of taboo are being played in small groups.
	www.nps.gov /archive/indu/education/westbeach/taboo.htm (312 words)

	ExpressO Preprint Series
		This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck.
		The intersection of the word fuck and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education.
		Drawing upon the research of etymologists, linguists, lexicographers, psychoanalysts, and other social scientists, the visceral reaction to fuck can be explained by cultural taboo.
	law.bepress.com /expresso/eps/1087 (234 words)

	Taboo! - Pokemon Elite 2000 Forum
		A Taboo Word is a word that is forbidden; you cannot say it.
		There will be four words that have to do with the main Taboo Word that are also forbidden.
		If the Taboo Word I gave you happened to be "Ash", I would give you four more forbidden words.
	www.pokemonelite2000.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4105 (1036 words)

	Totem and Taboo - Word Power
		Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when 'Totem and Taboo' was first published in 1913, it caused outrage.
		Thorough and thought-provoking, 'Totem and Taboo' remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes.
		If you don't know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we're living in, then 'Totem and Taboo' is the book to read.
	www.word-power.co.uk /catalogue/041525387x (382 words)

	taboo - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
		Among the many discoveries of Captain James Cook was a linguistic one, the term taboo.
		When any thing is forbidden to be eat, or made use of, they say, that it is taboo.
		Cook, besides borrowing the word into English, also made it into a noun referring to the prohibition itself and a verb meaning "to make someone or something taboo." From its origins in Polynesia the word taboo has traveled as widely as Cook himself and is now used throughout the English-speaking world.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/t/t0004900.html (219 words)

	Daily Dreamtime - The taboo is so strong that it compels many to engage in self-censorship.
		Daily Dreamtime - The taboo is so strong that it compels many to engage in self-censorship.
		To fully understand the legal power of fuck, the nonlegal sources of its power are tapped.
		Understanding this relationship between law and taboo ultimately yields fuck jurisprudence.
	drugaddict.livejournal.com /1853212.html (232 words)

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