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Re: Name your twin girls..
Minna Purpurblättchen
Rosa Ruhestelle
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I am almost pretty sure that most names would be made better by the addition of a Purpurblättchen or two. Minna is WICKED cute, right on. would Ruhestelle be said "Rust-elle" (my initial instinct) or "ruh-Estelle"?
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Minna and Rosa are lovely, and as a student of German I admire the middle names :)
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Minna & Rosa are great together. Not sure on the mn's though!
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they're from german art songs
ruh means "quiet, calm, still" and there is no english word quite like it; "ruhestelle" means resting place, basically, which is a euphemism for grave. It's from a Goethe poem called Am Den Mond (to the moon) that schubert set which is sublimely sweet and simple and beautiful and haunting. I think it's a lovely wordPurpurblättchen means, basically, small purple leaf, and it is from a Beethoven song called Adélaïde, which is sung by a dude who is apparently in love with Adélaïde, and the last verse says: some day I'm gonna die, and a flower from the ashes of my heart will bloom on my grave, and on every purple leaf will clearly shine the name: Adélaïde. !!! i'm SO CRUNK!
one of my favorite songs ever. there's nicer images in it (zauberlicht "magic light" abendlüfte "evening breezes") but I like the beauty and morbidity of the purple leaves from the ashes of his heartso yeah this is a morbid pair of twinsters but they're also not my top names and I'm not married
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LOL, they're both fantastic. Big love for Schubert songs, and I might have to dig the Beethoven one up now because it sounds great, if somewhat gloomtastic.
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How would you pronounce Purpurblättchen?!
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pur-pur-blet-chen basically. like you're starting to say purple but don't quite make it to the L. r's less strong though

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It's growing on me .... seriously, it's pretty cool in a GP way!
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