[MD] Precious ?

[MarshaV]

Greetings Mark, 

And points to the use of fictional characters often associated with children's fantasy.  :-)   


Marsha



On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:01 AM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, and Gollum used it too!
> 
> My precious,
> Mark
> 
> Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
> Mark
> 
> On Jan 19, 2012, at 6:07 AM, David Thomas <combinedefforts at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/19/12 4:27 AM, "Ian Glendinning" <ian.glendinning at gmail.com> ask:
>> 
>>> Question - does the English use of the word "precious" translate into
>>> US / abroad ?
>>> As in one person describing another as being "precious" or "precious about X"
>>> ?
>> "Precious about X-thing" I don't recall reading or hearing here. The phrase
>> "He/she is so precious" is occasionally used, usually by doting mothers or
>> grandmothers to refer their young children meaning something like
>> "precociously endearing"
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>>