Talk:Shisha
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This has been functioning as an advert for a company named Opetec. It described their product as "open source" while they say on their website that they are "unwilling to reveal the true features" for now, unless you happen to be a serious investor! The product is evidently vaporware at the moment so shouldn't be mentioned here, at least until it becomes a reality.
[edit] What is shisha really?
This is a quote from the hookah article:
- "[shisha is] a synonym for hookah, water pipe, or narghile. The word comes from the Persian word for glass. The term “shisha” is primarily used for water pipes in Egypt. Misinformed Westerners tend to refer to the tobacco smoked from a water pipe as "shisha""
Why then does this article just say that it is just the tobacco, without even mentionning other uses of the word? Someone should fix this contradiction, either by correcting the summary in the hookah article or by explaining the uses of the term "shisha" better in the introduction to this article.
Another contradiction that I found is that this article mentions that the word shisha comes from the "Arabic term for a water pipe", not the "Persian word for glass". Which one of these etymologies is correct?
Also, what the hell is a "double voiceless postalveolar fricative"? IronChris | (talk) 20:16, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
- Shhhhh. 24.84.202.57 20:36, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Style Guide
This article looks like a little kid wrote it. Someone who knows something about the subject and can understand what the original author is trying to get at, please fix punctuation and grammar and take out irrelevant information. The same goes for the hookah article. CBecker 11:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I agree; the article is very poorly written and uses collquialisms and a general tone and style that isn't suitable for an encyclopeda. As a result, the article is very hard to understand and I have put up the appropriate banners on the top of the page.
Edited the last section which previously only referenced one article; it now makes mention of elven and provides a more balanced perspective on the tobacco versus Shisha debate. Will update the references section to match later. - Zeek
[edit] Shisha: pipe or tobacco?
I've changed the header so that the word can refer to both, but a definite answer on this would help. If Shisha means the pipe, then the article ought to be merged with hookah, for which it would be a synonym. If it means the tobacco itself, then maybe we need a Shisha (tobacco) article with a disambiguation line that states "This article is about the tobacco. For the pipe, see hookah", or similar. Wsbhopkin 14:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
