Talk:Hori hori

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Sales pitch like tone to article

This article reads like a sales pitch for the tool (e.g. "The stainless steel blade will never rust and will stay sharp" and "The Hori-Hori allows the gardener to have a personal touch with their garden") The article links to companies that sell the tool in the USA. I suggest it needs cleaning up and linking to more neutral information sites --mgaved (talk) 17:21, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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"hori" is a conjugation of the verb "horu" (掘る), to dig. So "horu" is the verb and "hori-hori" would be an onomatopoeic word roughly meaning "dig-(and-)dig". My dictionaries don't have it, though (one suggesting "scratch" or "crunch"), suggesting that it is a neologism (chiming in with above comments about it sounding like a sales pitch or product description).

I also agree with the preceding comment, albeit tangentially on the issue of utility/longevity of serrated stainless steel blades in general. My serrated 'kama' (鎌) is quite a bit less useful than a smooth one that I'd have to (or simply be able to) sharpen with a whetstone.

Searching for the tool also throws up a lot of sites that are obviously highly-ranked based on search engine optimisation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.11.65.205 (talk) 03:02, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Name

The Japanese article is called 山菜掘り and mentions that it's only called Hori Hori outside Japan. Given that this article started out as an advertisement, I think Hori Hori is a brand name and that this article should be moved to Sansaihori. Otherwise we'd have to move it to Sansai knife, which I don't like because its intended use is more like a trowel, as the 掘り part of the name suggests, or to Sansai trowel, which gets zero search engine hits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 16:02, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]