Monarchy Now
- 1. Schloss Schönbrunn.
- 2. Not sure what 'Plonarch' is.
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Synonym for "political leader." You are one laff riot, Tom!
I did a Google search on "plonarch." I didn't look too too closely at the results but it seems that not just the word but the entire expression "Salon Party Plonarch" has something to do with some sort of multi-player game, possibly a video game, or maybe just something available over the Internet. Not being a "gamer" myself, I am totally ignorant -- ON PURPOSE -- of all such things. May this be the last time I ever encounter this subject.
The game references are there because someone who played various games supported by internet-based software called "steam" chose Slon-Party-Plonarch as his steam-name for some reason, just as we chose Grampa Wild Willy and MichealT as our lyricstranslate-names (for rather more intelligible reasons, of course). So the game connection is just that someone who was a multiplayer game addict (at least until feb 2012 - that's the last time GamesMods,org saw him) picked that name, and for all we know he picked it from the song (the song is old enough - first released in 1982 on the album Nachtflug) - he could be expected to listen to German stuff as he was based in Stans (chief town of Nidwald, Switzerland) which is a mainly German-speaking town. The song can't have taken the phrase/word from an internet-based multi-player game of the type on the web-pages found by google with that search, since it antedates such games unless one counts the earliest MUDs (MUD/MUD1 and itsvarious clones, MUD2, MIST, SHADES) as such games, but these were nothing likethe modern games.
Could Plonarch be a typo for Pleonarch? I'm not sure either word exists, but Pleonarch , if it does exist, probably means someone who uses pleonasm to gain or retain control of conversation or debate; in other words, some-one who uses too many words deliberately in order to render communication ineffective (so it would be a synonym for "political leader"). But the word isn't in any German dictionary I've seen (or any other language, for that matter) but since pleo[n]- (from Greek) is a prefix used in several languages and -arch is common enough too it seems possible that someone coined it sometime and it got into these lyrics somehow.