Sense of Decorum
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:
- From Wordnet, Decorum is propriety in manners and conduct
- Decorum (from the Latin: “proper, fit, becoming”) was a principle of classical rhetoric, poetry and theatrical theory. Decorum is also applied to prescribed limits of appropriate social behavior within set situations
- Appropriate social behavior; propriety; A convention of social behavior is another Decorum meaning
- In literary parlance, the appropriateness of a work to its subject, its genre and its audience.
- behaviour in keeping with good taste and propriety
- The order and respect for others that all delegates at a Model UN conference must exhibit. The Chair will call for decorum when he or she feels that the committee is not being respectful of a speaker, of the dais, or of their roles as ambassadors.
- A theatrical style in which plays maintain a single, narrow range of language and behavior. Tragic plays use classic, heroic characters trapped …
- Proper order, etiquette and conduct of members during a floor session.
So, which definitions above suits DECORUM? I think most of them are. In my understanding, Decorum is all about the proper way to act in public, it’s about the proper ways and conducts.
Of course, it’s still up to you how you use it, just don’t mess it up.
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