[MD] Precious ?

[MarshaV]

Bloody right Gov, and precious of you to remind us...   




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On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:53 AM, Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>> 
>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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