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Thoughts on Prudence?
What color is it? What do you see when you hear it?
**Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam/Butterscotch clouds, a tangerine, and a side order of ham**
What color is it? What do you see when you hear it?
**Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam/Butterscotch clouds, a tangerine, and a side order of ham**
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I’m not really a fan of the name. Not a fan of the ‘pru’ part. I see it as a nice shade of pink though. I picture the Malory Towers/ St Claires books as I could’ve sworn there was a character in one of them called Prudence.
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I can imagine Prudence as a stylish woman in the 1940s. Or a millennial with lots of tattoos.
I think it's the type of name that could seem cool on someone I liked and unfortunate on someone I didn't.
I prefer Prudence to Constance, but I think I prefer Temperance to Prudence. It's about like Patience but more prim and somehow also rougher.
palatinate purple, sky blue, a yellow umbrella
My main association is "Dear Prudence": either the Siouxsie and the Banshees or the Across the Universe version.
I think I might be associating Pluto, more distantly...considering I'm basically seeing the colors that are on Breakfast on Pluto posters.
Also, I'm reminded of jurisprudence and Prunella (self-heal).
I think it's the type of name that could seem cool on someone I liked and unfortunate on someone I didn't.
I prefer Prudence to Constance, but I think I prefer Temperance to Prudence. It's about like Patience but more prim and somehow also rougher.
palatinate purple, sky blue, a yellow umbrella
My main association is "Dear Prudence": either the Siouxsie and the Banshees or the Across the Universe version.
I think I might be associating Pluto, more distantly...considering I'm basically seeing the colors that are on Breakfast on Pluto posters.
Also, I'm reminded of jurisprudence and Prunella (self-heal).
This message was edited 9/23/2020, 10:12 PM
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It's ok, colour plum
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It's sort of ... campy? Because of the prude part, and just the synthetic way that the word prudence gets used in modern language.
It's magenta or hot pink.
I think it's an okay name, just nms soundwise.
It's magenta or hot pink.
I think it's an okay name, just nms soundwise.
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Aw, I really like Prudence
The name totally wears its heart on its sleeve, which I find endearing.
I don't associate names with colors.
The name totally wears its heart on its sleeve, which I find endearing.
I don't associate names with colors.
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Dear Prudence... won't you come out to plaaayyyy...
Dear Prudence... greet the brand new daaaaayHAAAAA-AAAAAYYYY...
This is not a complaint about the song, by any means. It's a good song - in fact, a great one. It's just that I cannot separate Prudence from the Beatles song.
Dear Prudence... greet the brand new daaaaayHAAAAA-AAAAAYYYY...
This is not a complaint about the song, by any means. It's a good song - in fact, a great one. It's just that I cannot separate Prudence from the Beatles song.
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that's what i thought of too
NT :)
NT :)
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I’ve never cared for Prudence. It’s dated and frumpy and unattractive.
I’ve always imagined it as a dull purple, kinda like the color of a prune. I imagine a grandmother with it.
I’ve always imagined it as a dull purple, kinda like the color of a prune. I imagine a grandmother with it.
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It's charcoal gray, and it makes me think of a pinch-mouthed, sour-faced, sharp-nosed schoolmarm of the old style, about to whack some poor fool across the knuckles with her ruler.
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It makes me think of constipation. I can't erase the association. Maybe it's the similarity to prunes? I think it's... brown. :-/ I don't like it. It's dehydrated and uptight.
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I agree
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Prudence is purple, like dusky, mothy purple, and I see my good good girl Miss Proo. Here she is being pretty and nice:
edit: I'm not the biggest fan of the name as I've mentioned, but I don't mind it and it suits Miss.
edit: I'm not the biggest fan of the name as I've mentioned, but I don't mind it and it suits Miss.
This message was edited 9/23/2020, 9:29 AM
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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.
This message was edited 9/23/2020, 3:00 PM
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I actually love it. It's guacamole and rose. I hear Dear Prudence by the Beatles. I see a gentle well-dressed sixties era girl in white and maroon striped bell bottoms.
https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/214161 :)
https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/214161 :)
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Maroon I think
I can't get beyond the "prude" part. Even if you can get beyond the "uptight killjoy", it sounds like "puce" which is unpleasant on the ears and a maroon-like shade
Not that I don't like maroon. I actually like that colour quite a bit. It was the colour of my high school uniform so it's an academic colour to me. When I got to uni, I bought a couple of uni-branded jumpers and I purposely got the maroon ones because while I prefer blue and yellow (uni colours), I didn't feel like it was right xD but that's just me. I likely wouldn't choose to use it outside of that reason
I can't get beyond the "prude" part. Even if you can get beyond the "uptight killjoy", it sounds like "puce" which is unpleasant on the ears and a maroon-like shade
Not that I don't like maroon. I actually like that colour quite a bit. It was the colour of my high school uniform so it's an academic colour to me. When I got to uni, I bought a couple of uni-branded jumpers and I purposely got the maroon ones because while I prefer blue and yellow (uni colours), I didn't feel like it was right xD but that's just me. I likely wouldn't choose to use it outside of that reason
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