In article <98187$472d2886$621026d8$29067@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, on Sat, 03 Nov
2007 22:03:56 -0400, Bastard Toadflax <bastard_toadflax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
says...
> Juho Julkunen wrote:
> >> FH saw the name Harkonnen, or a form of it, in a phonebook, and just
> >>liked it, or, that is what I have read....
> >
> >
> > Harkonnen isn't a Russian name.
> >
> > Vladimir is, though.
>
> Does make me wonder about Harkonnen, though....
It looks like an anglicization of Finnish surname Härkönen to me.
The makers of the SciFi Channel miniseries apparently thought so too,
since the pronunciation in that is kind of reminiscent of Finnish
unlike in the Lynch movie.
--
Juho Julkunen
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