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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No lie, Herbert saw the name Harkonnen in a phone book and thought it sounded Russian. He wanted a scary Russian name to suit the evil, Machiavellian, despotic homosexual villain that was Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of all the names to sound Russian, it looks Nordic to me

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

It's actually Ural-Hungarian, if we want to be pedantic.