Now *there's* a custody battle

Found via RISKS, story here:

A divorce in Chongqing has turned ugly when both parties want their joint online game accounts, Chongqing Business Post reports. Mr. Wang from Chongqing and Ms. Ye from Huibei met last September on Shanda's (Nasdaq: SNDA) online game Legend of Mir 2. Wang saved Ye's character from being killed by another player. The couple married at the end of October but decided to get a divorce in June. During their marriage, the couple jointly played over ten Mir 2 accounts, attaining level 40 to 50 status for all of them. The characters and virtual items are estimated to be worth 40,000 to 50,000 Yuan. Wang said that he wants to keep the accounts and virtual items and is willing to give their joint apartment to Ye. However, Ye wants to split the apartment and game items equally.

Niggles, pt. 2

I knew I'd forgotten some...

4. If you are exposing something, you 'bare' it. If you're putting up with it, carrying it, or just about anything else, including grinning-and-etc, you 'bear' it.

5. A large pile of treasure is a 'hoard'. A large pile of Vikings - or indeed Mongols, Visigoths, Huns, Orcs, Chaos Warriors, or sysadmins - is a 'horde'. To help remember the difference: pirates go "ARRR!" when they find treasure, peasants go "EEEE!" when they see Vikings approaching.

6. That mischievous lass stealing your wallet is a 'rogue'. The makeup she applies to her face is 'rouge'. Do not confuse the two. Not even as deliberate irony, because it's been done to death already.

7. I love helping people with mathematical problems. Really I do. But if you come to me asking "if I add two numbers together and then square the result, is that the same as squaring each of the numbers and then adding them together?", and you already hold a science-related degree, I reserve the right to weep tears of blood after you leave.

- Apropos of nothing in particular, when did people stop pronouncing "Los Angeles" with a hard 'g' (like 'angle')? I noticed American actors doing this in an old Hitchcock movie tonight and it threw me, because I don't think I've ever heard it IRL.