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Re: Le dernier saint chevalier
'Saint' in English would be a title added as a prefix to a name, just like 'Knight' would be. This presents a whole bunch of problems for the title as it's used there, such as:
1) If it's 'The Last Saint Knight' It would imply that Knight would be the character's name or something.
2)Similarly if it's 'The Last Saint Knight' it would imply that knight should be the honorific, in which case it should be first and Saint would be the character.
3)Neither one would work after the name, such as we have "Saint Patrick" or "Knights of the Round table" but not Patrick Saint/Round Table Knights.
4)Saint Knight, in the medieval context, would actually be an unusual title anyway because all knights were required to take an uphold vows, whereas a saint was canonized for their deeds after death, even in circumstances when people like the Pope were very aware that they were dealing with a seriously holy icon (Look up
Oh man! I'm excellent at this stuff! (History major)excuse for my almost non-existant french understanding (and english isn't my first language either) but isn't the title "the last saint knight"? what's all the fuss about?
'Saint' in English would be a title added as a prefix to a name, just like 'Knight' would be. This presents a whole bunch of problems for the title as it's used there, such as:
1) If it's 'The Last Saint Knight' It would imply that Knight would be the character's name or something.
2)Similarly if it's 'The Last Saint Knight' it would imply that knight should be the honorific, in which case it should be first and Saint would be the character.
3)Neither one would work after the name, such as we have "Saint Patrick" or "Knights of the Round table" but not Patrick Saint/Round Table Knights.
4)Saint Knight, in the medieval context, would actually be an unusual title anyway because all knights were required to take an uphold vows, whereas a saint was canonized for their deeds after death, even in circumstances when people like the Pope were very aware that they were dealing with a seriously holy icon (Look up
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for some more reading there), meaning that the title Saint Knight is very loaded terminology, but close enough to a proper phrase that it got jimmies rustled.