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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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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 1 year ago

kbin sounds a lot like karabin, which means rifle in Polish.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year 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.

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

It's a play for unix filesystem's layout - /sbin -> kbin. Can't recall the post, but that was answered by Ernest himself.

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