[MD] Precious ?

[Ian Glendinning]

Thanks Marsha, I'm glad the irony was not lost.
Ian

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:02 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Bloody right Gov, and precious of you to remind us...
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:53 AM, Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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".
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>> As I suspected.
>> I'll need to come back to my original point.
>> Ian
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>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:58 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>> Greetings Mark,
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>>> And points to the use of fictional characters often associated with children's fantasy.  :-)
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>>> 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!
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>>>> My precious,
>>>> Mark
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>>>> Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
>>>> Mark
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>>> 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"
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>>>>> Dave
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