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Re: Magenta - A real name?
This is how future popular names are predicted: looking at the names in very popular movied and the names of children of actors and actresses.
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Maybe so ... but the actors must get them from somewhere. Perhaps they are just more attuned than the rest of us to how the broader public might be 'thinking', though the 'thoughts' would still be unconscious. They depend for their living on being on the public's wavelength, after all. Interesting!Interesting also to consider the usual paradigm: that leaders in society start using a name, let's say Przml, and people who admire them and aspire to their position learn the name Przml from them ... and so on down the social ladder until the social leaders notice too many little Przmls for comfort and drop it. Thus it sinks to become a truly well-used, popular name while those who started the process are now naming their children Wgrrq. Does the same, or similar, happen with actor-family names? Or do people identify Actor A, whether from personality or usual roles, as posh and Actor B as underclass ... so Proudly Underclass parents might follow B's lead and Aspiring Upperclass parents might copy A? And is there any way, other than the notoriously inaccurate personal testimony, of finding out?
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