Nothing visible through the windshield. It's just black.

I take my car into a forest, the car battery goes down. Outside it's so dark. I wrote the above sentence to describe what I see though the windshield. Now my confusion is whether "It's just black" is a natural way a native speaker say it, or if they'd just say "It's just dark".


A native speaker would probably say:

I can't see a thing! It's pitch black outside.

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    Perhaps so, although I don't find anything wrong with the original. It could work in a story. The first segment is a fragment (There's nothing visible through the windshield would fix that), but, in a larger context, that might be fine; writers use fragments all the time. – J.R. May 31 '13 at 10:20
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    You could also say pitch dark – Daniel May 31 '13 at 16:00
  • @J.R. Yes, I like to use the fragment, the complete sentence which doesn't look good for story. – T2E Jun 1 '13 at 4:46

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