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[theweaselking]

Online gamer in Shanghai kills fellow player for selling his sword.

Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his "dragon sabre", used in the popular online game, "Legend of Mir 3", the newspaper said a Shanghai court was told on Tuesday.

"Legend of Mir 3" features heroes and villains, sorcerers and warriors, many of whom wield enormous swords.

Qiu and a friend jointly won their weapon last February, and lent it to Zhu who then sold it for 7,200 yuan (464 pounds), the newspaper said.

Qui went to the police to report the "theft" but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law.

"Zhu promised to hand over the cash but an angry Qui lost patience and attacked Zhu at his home, stabbing him in the left chest with great force and killing him," the court was told.

Comments

Brilliant

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

"the left chest". Yes. He has two chests. A left one and a right one, apparently.

Re: Brilliant

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

#1: It's translated.
#2: "Left chest" means "left side of your chest". Sheesh, it's even a workable, if awkward, English construction.

Re: Brilliant

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I know what they wanted to say ... I just figure that it shouldn't be all that difficult to get a translator that would realize it should be "left side of the chest" and not "left chest". These are supposed to be journalistic people, which means they're also literary people ... I'm also a cynical bastard with little to no sympathy or forgiveness for mass media.

Re: Brilliant

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Well, I work in Emergency situations doing triage, and in those cases L. Chest is sometimes as much as you get.

Re: Brilliant

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

When you're doing triage, it's understandable that all that gets written down is "L. Chest". Time is of the essence. When it gets expanded in a legal or journalistic setting, however, the person doing the expanding, or at least one of their assistants, should be intelligent enough to realize that it isn't short for just "left chest", but "left side of the chest".

Re: Brilliant

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

But it's PERFECTLY GOOD ENGLISH. It's *awkward*, but it's *right*.

Sheesh!

[aberrantangels]

Qui went to the police to report the "theft" but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law.

"Son, I did not drive three hundred miles and put on this fancy suit to listen to your Star Wars related fantasies. Now, kindly explain the fraudulent situation I am here to investigate."

Re: Brilliant

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

It's syntactically correct, but there's more to natural language than syntax; English isn't some artificial formal system where only syntax matters. It's semantically retarded; there is no "left chest" and anybody who knows what "left" and "chest" mean, in English, would know this. If they had a reasonable amount of linguistic and logical intelligence, they'd reason that it referred to the left side of the chest and write that down, but, no, apparently, these people are incapable of that.

Re: Brilliant

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I know doctors who disagree with you. The term is clinical but *CORRECT*. There is nothing wrong with it.

Re: Brilliant

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I'd bet that they call it "left chest" merely as a form of short-hand, which is basically what I said in response to waterspyder. I don't expect people to understand or accept the use of technical philosophical terms if I toss them around in everyday conversation and doctors shouldn't expect it either.