User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/What fighting style do you want to see in RWBY?/@comment-25857155-20150311134424/@comment-26018514-20150311140302

"A bastard sword, for those of you who have been confused into believing it is roughly the same as a greatsword, is also called a hand-and-a-half sword, which is somewhere betweena longsword and shortsword in length"

I thought it was in between a Longsword-greatsword in length... why would they want to wield a weapon 2-handed shorter than a longsword?