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ArisKatsaris 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: ArisKatsaris 30 November 2011 05:27:11PM 0 points [-]

but somehow the grammatical "mistake" (using an adjective (Sombre/Dark) instead of a name (Noirceur/Darkness)) works less well in French than it does in English

"Dark" can be used as a noun in English, it's not strictly an adjective - e.g. "I'm in the dark". "I looked into the dark".