Linguistic (or cultural?) question about the scythe tool

[jovial nacelle]

Okay, so I'm going to go full language nerd here, but I've been wondering about the choice of name vs image for the scythe tool.

To the best of my knowledge, a scythe is typically defined as a long-handled cutting tool with a gently curved blade, generally used two-handed and standing up. The image in Coral Island, however, seems to show a sickle, a short-handled cutting tool with a more sharply curved blade, generally used one-handed.

I know that there's a tradition of scythes in farming sims, for sure in Stardew Valley and I think I've heard about it in Harvest Moon. I have only played SDV, where I know the crop-harvesting function for different types of crops (other than grassy crops like wheat) was added with one of the more recent updates, not originally in the game.

So I'm wondering partly if the choice to change the imagery to that of a sickle was done in Coral Island in response to the choice of making it more of an all-around crop-harvesting tool rather than just a grass-mower, or if it was sicklefied for a different reason? Was the choice to still call it a scythe made as a call-back to the other farming sims, or maybe because the image choices were made too long after the text programming was done? Since the developers are based in Indonesia, is it maybe related to linguistic differences; could Bahasa have one general term that encompasses both the English concept of scythe and sickle?

I'm real fun at a party, can you tell?

[tribal wigeon]

I've seen plenty of tools in the real world, in the style that the game has still called/classified as Scythes, others called Hand Scythes, or Small Scythe.
The actual definition is as follows;

The word "scythe" derives from Old English siðe.[1] In Middle English and later, it was usually spelled sithe or sythe. However, in the 15th century some writers began to use the sc- spelling as they thought (wrongly) that the word was related to the Latin scindere (meaning "to cut").```
The choice of name seems fine to me, and I see little reason to nitpick at a tool name in a world where Bronze is a normally-occurring ore type and mermaids collect doorknobs 😹

[jovial nacelle]

I want to begin by pointing out that my question here comes from a place of genuine curiousity about the decision choices made while developing the game. Creating a game of this scale is a large project with decisions upon decisions, and I was just curious about this one. You call it "nitpicking", which implies to me that you interpet this as a negative criticism, which is not at all my intention. The past few years I have just been working on trying to establish a flower meadow in an unused part of my yard, and have been learning to mow with a scythe in the process. So that combined with a long-standing interest in languages has me curious about this terminology decision in particular.

May I ask which region of English you are from/have seen scythe used for the short-handled tool? The only references I've been able to come across in my searches for using the term scythe on the short-handled tool have been on online stores of...non-professional quality, shall we say. Etsy and eBay and the like. However, this might just be regional differences, since I know search results will change depending on IP location.

I'm also curious of the source of your definition? In general, I don't think that this definition as presented necessarily proves that there is no distinction between sickle and scythe in real-world usage. That seems like finding a definition of "cat" as "a furry, four-legged animal with a tail, typically kept as a domestic pet", and then saying a dalmation is a cat.

My usual sources of definitions come from comparing Collins Dictionary (primarily British English), Cambridge Dictionary (also primarily British English), and Merriam Webster Dictionary (primarily American English). All of these three sources distinguish scythe as a long-handled tool and sickle as short-handled.

Then again, these dictionaries are more focused on broader language use, and especially with English, there are so fascinatingly many regional and dialectal differences in usage that don't fit within their scopes. So I am definitely open to the possibility that there are regional usage differences even in English. But I'd like to know more about it, if that is the case.