Hi Ian and All, I was watching television last night and Diana Ross? Was singing in New York's Central Park after being rained out the night before. She was precious! Throughout the whole performance she was present. There was no doubt that DQ/SQ could describe her presence!
As a singer in Church I have a sense when I am not present and when I am present. I was watching television and I felt that she was DQ/SQ present at that concert to the very end. I don't know if 'present' and 'precious' are complementary but they both begin with 'P'. Joe On 1/19/12 11:53 PM, "Ian Glendinning" <ian.glendinn...@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 <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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
