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I had an old LJ, which I got rid of once I got married and moved to Germany. I thought that was a good time to start fresh with a new LJ. So I started a new account and called it little_liebchen. That's something Lance called me once, right after he moved to Germany (he moved there before I did) and started learning German.
But people kept misspelling it all the time and it no longer seemed to fit after awhile. I had started my writing career by that point and had a few publications under my belt. I wanted a new LJ name that seemed a bit more sophisticated and was also a subtle nod to my writing life.
I spent awhile trying to find the right word. "Prosaic" had already been taken, and that's the name I actually wanted. Although the word has a couple definitions, one of which is not entirely flattering.
pro⋅sa⋅ic
–adjective 1. commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
2. of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry.
And then, there was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
prosodic:
pros⋅o⋅dy
–noun 1. the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
2. a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification: Milton's prosody.
3. Linguistics. the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance.
(Credit both definitions to http://www.dictionary.com)
A-HA!
And that became my LJ username (after I got a rename token) and also one of my email addresses. A friend exclaimed, when given my new email address, that she loved this new name, because it perfectly reflected my love of words. That was entirely the point. :) I'm glad someone got it.
I had an old LJ, which I got rid of once I got married and moved to Germany. I thought that was a good time to start fresh with a new LJ. So I started a new account and called it little_liebchen. That's something Lance called me once, right after he moved to Germany (he moved there before I did) and started learning German.
But people kept misspelling it all the time and it no longer seemed to fit after awhile. I had started my writing career by that point and had a few publications under my belt. I wanted a new LJ name that seemed a bit more sophisticated and was also a subtle nod to my writing life.
I spent awhile trying to find the right word. "Prosaic" had already been taken, and that's the name I actually wanted. Although the word has a couple definitions, one of which is not entirely flattering.
pro⋅sa⋅ic
–adjective 1. commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
2. of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry.
And then, there was
prosodic:pros⋅o⋅dy
–noun 1. the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
2. a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification: Milton's prosody.
3. Linguistics. the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance.
(Credit both definitions to http://www.dictionary.com)
A-HA!
And that became my LJ username (after I got a rename token) and also one of my email addresses. A friend exclaimed, when given my new email address, that she loved this new name, because it perfectly reflected my love of words. That was entirely the point. :) I'm glad someone got it.