How can “Kinki”?
According to Google NGram, for example: Kangi is more common than Kansai is.
Why are statistical differences statistically different? What contributed to this election result, and why? Why did the word “kinky” have been used? Google NGram doesn’t indicate a spectacular rise for the word, but that could be because it didn’t use to be used in a sexual sense, whereas that meaning has become more common over time – I don’t know how to measure that though.
What is the reason why Japanese people use the word “Kinki” so less then Americans, and that the relative use of “Kinki” versus “Kansai” has spilled over into english?
What is the difference between kinky and Kanshai? Why are they
so close, so that we can combine both their observations together, thus:
Other factors could include earlier texts being more likely to have one misread by Google’s OCR, but it seems a reasonable conclusion.
Is it valid to avoid homophones, but not to horde in relation to other synonyms?
What include the simple fact which is more often seen by readers leading words to be one of the cases where nothing succeeds like success, or the simple fact that which merely looks more Japanese to an English-speaking reader. I immediately thought that Kansai looked like a Japanese word, but didn’t have the same reaction to Kinki, so that would be a reason in itself to favour it for an English-speaking audience. My partner has called me Bent, I’m not naming any future son that if he is going to live in an English-speaking country. ).
Which one is more popular – kansai (I’m a Japanese) or kinki (Asian American) in Japan? Therefore I make more use of it over my other two languages in the Google search.
In Japan it’s possible that English has even influenced the Japanese preference, though we’d need similar data in Japanese to even begin to judge the possibility.
So in all, I think we can say that the similarity to a French word is definitely a very plausible as a reason for favouring one over the other, but it’s not proven, and certainly not proven as the only reason.
Andrew, I have been living on Shibuya for 4 years, have tons of friends and students from the Kansai region, have visited the area several times. Why is Kinki used as a synonym for Kansai?
