[MD] Precious ?

[Ian Glendinning]

All of which is very interesting, because they don't represent the
sense of precious I was asking about.
These are about things being precious - having high value to the
someone expressing the adjective.
I was talking about the sense of someone "being precious ... about something".

As I suspected.
I'll need to come back to my original point.
Ian

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:58 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Greetings Mark,
>
> And points to the use of fictional characters often associated with children's fantasy.  :-)
>
>
> Marsha
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> On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:01 AM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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