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Help[Opinions] Re: Prudence
in reply to a message by a masked man
Since this is now one of "my" names, I consider myself an authority on it and will subject you to my intensely introspective impressions.
I will say that in using it and hearing other people use it, its ugliness isn't very pronounced. People speak lightly and it ends up sounding mostly something like Prootnce. It's not the type of name that can easily be said forcefully, and I like how polite people sound when they're talking to her and using her full name. It can't carry momentum, it doesn't hold rhythm. In the song "Dear Prudence" it's always a little comical.
That said, its crumpling-up quality is not particularly attractive... though it does lessen some of the names inherent unattractiveness. It's just not a very nice word.
Prudence is very English to me in both the sense of being buttoned up and stern, and in the sense that this buttoned up culture is what British rock bloomed out of and often refers to. I love 60s-70s British rock and enjoyed the thought of psychedelia when naming pup.
There is an anecdote about Dear Prudence that makes me laugh a lot. The woman, Prudence, about whom the song was written, was on the transcendental meditation retreat with the Beatles. She seemed somber and John thought she was so sad. But she maintains that she wasn't sad, she was just in TM mode, and that everyone else just didn't understand how TM worked. That's the essence of the name Prudence to me - immersion in these interesting choices that have spiritual and psychedelic undertones, not getting carried away by it, and carrying this feeling of potential radiance that wants to be coaxed out. Just had coffee, RAMBLING.
I like that it rhymes with Students. This part of my life will be defined by Prudence and students.
I will say that in using it and hearing other people use it, its ugliness isn't very pronounced. People speak lightly and it ends up sounding mostly something like Prootnce. It's not the type of name that can easily be said forcefully, and I like how polite people sound when they're talking to her and using her full name. It can't carry momentum, it doesn't hold rhythm. In the song "Dear Prudence" it's always a little comical.
That said, its crumpling-up quality is not particularly attractive... though it does lessen some of the names inherent unattractiveness. It's just not a very nice word.
Prudence is very English to me in both the sense of being buttoned up and stern, and in the sense that this buttoned up culture is what British rock bloomed out of and often refers to. I love 60s-70s British rock and enjoyed the thought of psychedelia when naming pup.
There is an anecdote about Dear Prudence that makes me laugh a lot. The woman, Prudence, about whom the song was written, was on the transcendental meditation retreat with the Beatles. She seemed somber and John thought she was so sad. But she maintains that she wasn't sad, she was just in TM mode, and that everyone else just didn't understand how TM worked. That's the essence of the name Prudence to me - immersion in these interesting choices that have spiritual and psychedelic undertones, not getting carried away by it, and carrying this feeling of potential radiance that wants to be coaxed out. Just had coffee, RAMBLING.
I like that it rhymes with Students. This part of my life will be defined by Prudence and students.
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