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Am I the only one noticing it about kbin's name? (kbin.social)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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kbin sounds a lot like kabin, or かびん／花瓶, which means vase in Japanese.

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago

I think it's pretty safe to say that the two terms are unrelated, and that most people on a non-Japanese-speaking community would not make that same connection.

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