Is this accurate in your experience? Is this the whole story?

edit: updated from “search term” to “topic” for a more language-agnostic representation

  • Superachromat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Well, it might be representative of where the English term is used, I wouldn’t draw any more conclusions from that.

    • miles@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is an interesting point, is ultralight popular other places by other names?

      • Superachromat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I would expect so, why would the English term be used in other languages? At least in Finnish, the term would be “kevytvaellus” (meaning “light[weight] hiking”) and in Swedish the term “ultralätt” (lätt=light) is used at least as much as the English term.

        • miles@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          i poked around some more and i think you’re right! google trends has 2 different ways to classify terms, “search terms” and “topics”, i believe the first one is language-specific and the second is not. thanks for bringing that point up. i’ve updated the results, what do you think?