Perhaps a good example of the quote:
“Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language.”
Horse
On 20/01/2012 07:53, Ian Glendinning 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<val...@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<ununocti...@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<combinedeffo...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 1/19/12 4:27 AM, "Ian Glendinning"<ian.glendinn...@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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