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RichardKennaway 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: RichardKennaway 30 November 2011 05:18:16PM *  8 points [-]

Does "Lord of Dark" sounds disturbingly grammatically incorrect to native English speakers?

"Lord of Darkness" would be the standard epithet in extruded fantasy product. But this piece is a parody of that genre, and "Lord of Dark" matches "Sword of Good" in its deliberately plonking manner (i.e. what you called "captain-obvious"). It draws attention to its own banality, which is the point.