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HonoreDB comments on The Sword of Good: I need some help to translate it - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: loup-vaillant 30 November 2011 01:41PM

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Comment author: HonoreDB 30 November 2011 02:51:29PM 4 points [-]

"Scales" with a capital S, maybe? Les Échelles?

Although according to google translate and wiktionary, the word "balance" exists identically in French.

Comment author: loup-vaillant 30 November 2011 04:25:07PM *  1 point [-]

"Balance" is the first obvious word I thought about. Alas, I cannot use it because of its much more widespread other meaning : a weight measurement device. It could evoke the Scales of Justice, which is good, but only (I think) on a second tought. Let my readers' minds stumble like this would disrupt the flow of the story, and I want to avoid that.