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Faun

December 5th, 2008 by Build Vocabulary

It has several definition but I will accept each one of them.. This was from the Movie “Pan’s Labyrinth”. Nice movie.. loved it.

# a mythical creature with the body of a man and goat-like ears, tail, horns, and hooves
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# ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat’s tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
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# In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Bacchus (Greek Dionysus). However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun

# Faun is a German pagan folk/darkwave band formed in 1998. The originality of their music style is that they fall back to “old” instruments, and the singing is always the center of attention. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun (band)

# A mythical creature with the lower body of a goat and the upper body of a man, occasionally with horns and/or a long tail

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Sense of Decorum

October 26th, 2008 by Build Vocabulary

Ah, yes. This is my official first post. My new word for my oh so tiny vocabulary is DECORUM.

After I bought my Guitar Hero 4: Word Tour complete band game, I put the laundry on the machine and turn on the TV.

I saw a variation of some Tarzan of the Apes movie… Here’s the qoute from the dialog from the movie:

“Put on some clothes boy. It’s the rule here. Have a little sense of decorum

I wasn’t able to finish the movie… i got bored.. :)

Anyway, I did a quick googel search about Decorum and here’s what I got:

Definitions of decorum on the Web:

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