I was watching some Saturday Morning cartoons when I saw this commercial for a "Duel Action Lightsaber", basically a lightsaber with a hidden smaller lightsaber hidden in the hilt. The second saber can be attached to the main one to make it a double-ended lightsaber, reminiscent of the one that Darth Maul uses in The Phantom Menace.
The product itself is pretty cool, but the name sends waves of irritation through me, as "Duel Wielding" is a common mistake when people are trying to type out "Dual Wielding" To have a product that is called "Duel Action" featuring 2 sabers is just terrible.
Sure the lightsabers are meant for duelling, but "Duel Action" with 2 blades, what the hell were they thinking? Way to perpetuate the mispelling of Dual as Duel.
You can see in the commercial that later on, someone tried to deflect the mistake by printing out "Dual Bladed" onscreen for the 2-bladed mode, but more likely than not, someone up higher thought that Duel Action was the correct version and wanted to keep it, regardless of the implication that no one in the company can spell.
Bunch of corporate yahoos.
Allen.
