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That's a funny name. Where do you think it comes from?
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Shh-Wang-You, I've always gone with the subconscious Penis reference. Seeing as the Worms were, for the moment, gone.
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Wow, an actual Dune topic for discussion... and it only takes one reply to sink to penis jokes. :(

It is a weird name, I wonder if maybe it's an anagram?
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Baraka Bryan wrote:it would seem to be Asian-like if not for the Sch at the beginning...

hey Schu.. did you get your name from here by just cutting out the wangy parts? ;)

(yes another thinly veiled penis pun)
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Freakzilla wrote:Wow, an actual Dune topic for discussion... and it only takes one reply to sink to penis jokes. :(

It is a weird name, I wonder if maybe it's an anagram?
Man I'm sorry if that outaorder, but come do you really think it was a serious query.
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No, but it made me wonder.
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Okay, fair call. I'll take me lumps and be a good boy.
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Hmph. It's all serious, dammit! :P

Just because FH used a German-like spelling doesn't mean the origin isn't Asian. To me, it's always looked like a combination of Chinese and Japanese roots. Schwan could be something normally spelled shuan in pinyin; there's no gyu in Chinese, but there is in Japanese. (I'm pretty sure it's always with a long vowel, though, so gyuu or gyû.) Likewise, there's no shwan in Japanese.

At least, those are true for the modern languages. ;)

(The first thing that comes to mind for gyû is "beef" (as in gyûniku, or gyûdon), and shuan can be a verb meaning "scald thin slices of meat in boiling water" (anyone familiar with shabu-shabu? Yummy) ... so maybe FH was hungry or making a joking reference to Oriental cuisine when he came up with the name? ;) )
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I thought it sounded a bit Chinese as well. Where do you think Anteac comes from?
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chanilover wrote:I thought it sounded a bit Chinese as well. Where do you think Anteac comes from?
Monty Python's The Holy Grail. Castle Antioch was the final resting place of the Grail. :P

Sometimes I think he just drew letters from a Scrabble bag.
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Freakzilla wrote:
chanilover wrote:I thought it sounded a bit Chinese as well. Where do you think Anteac comes from?
Monty Python's The Holy Grail. Castle Antioch was the final resting place of the Grail. :P

Sometimes I think he just drew letters from a Scrabble bag.
Maybe it's the words that Brian tried to make... :lol:
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Baraka Bryan wrote:
Rakis wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:
chanilover wrote:I thought it sounded a bit Chinese as well. Where do you think Anteac comes from?
Monty Python's The Holy Grail. Castle Antioch was the final resting place of the Grail. :P

Sometimes I think he just drew letters from a Scrabble bag.
Maybe it's the words that Brian tried to make... :lol:
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Bobo: "anh etuchy yumto anteac!"
FH: "hmm Anteac... k thanks idiot!"
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Hell yeah...I'm sure that's the fucking truth...
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Schwangyu is so close from Schwangau ...http://www.schwangau.de/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
but maybe has nothing to do with .... :snooty:
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ionah wrote:Schwangyu is so close from Schwangau ...http://www.schwangau.de/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
but maybe has nothing to do with .... :snooty:
I've been there! :D

Not far from the Lowenbrau brewery, I believe.

I know Schwan is swan in English, what does -gau mean?
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Shlong.

The name means "swan shlong", because the piece of land the castle is built on looks like a swan's penis.

(The name of the castle also means "Nose Wang Stein", which I think is a reference to smelly genitals again ... like SR's.)

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SandChigger wrote:Shlong.

The name means "swan shlong", because the piece of land the castle is built on looks like a swan's penis.

(The name of the castle also means "Nose Wang Stein", which I think is a reference to smelly genitals again ... like SR's.)

Language truly is amazing, no? :P
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... I always pronounced the name Schwann - ju as opposed to Schwang - yu, from that you get Schwann which is a surname i.e. Theodor Schwann and we know Frank was interested in biology. The name does have a certain ring to it, flows off the tongue.
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No, no, SC is missleading y'all.

Schloss Neuschwanstein, lit. New Swan Stone palace.

King Ludwig II built it as a homage to Richard Wagner. The palace was originally called New Hohenschwangau Castle until the king's death, when it was renamed Neuschwanstein, the castle of the Swan Knight Lohengrin, of Wagner's opera of the same name. In origin, the palace has been the Schwanstein, the seat of the knights of Schwangau, whose emblem had been the swan.

Hohenschwangau Castle (lit: Castle of the High Swan County) was his residence.
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Kill joy. :lol:
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SandChigger wrote:Kill joy. :lol:
Like we didn't know "swan's penis" was totally a Greek thing. Sheesh! :roll: :wink:
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Freakzilla wrote:No, no, SC is missleading y'all.

Schloss Neuschwanstein, lit. New Swan Stone palace.

King Ludwig II built it as a homage to Richard Wagner. The palace was originally called New Hohenschwangau Castle until the king's death, when it was renamed Neuschwanstein, the castle of the Swan Knight Lohengrin, of Wagner's opera of the same name. In origin, the palace has been the Schwanstein, the seat of the knights of Schwangau, whose emblem had been the swan.

Hohenschwangau Castle (lit: Castle of the High Swan County) was his residence.
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Hee's her all weak!
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Try the roast beef and don't forget to tip your waitress!

So what did we decide, Schwangau is Swan Country?
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No. Like SR, it means "fowl dick."
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SandRider wrote:
Omphalos wrote:No. Like SR, it means "fowl dick."

now you're saying I have a rooster penis ?

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Now, now, SR. Im sure youre hung like a moose. :roll:

It was a pun. Fowl for foul, because we are talking about swan's dicks and because your penis is rumored to smell like the backside of an ancient hooker after a bad tuesday in lock-up.
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Omphalos wrote:No. Like SR, it means "fowl dick."

now you're saying I have a rooster penis ?

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