Hi Someone misread the word pretentious to be precious?
"My pretentious! Oh, you stole my Picky! Gollum! Gollum!" Beast regards Jan-Anders 20 jan 2012 kl. 23.11 skrev moq_discuss-requ...@lists.moqtalk.org: > Horse said: > > Perhaps a good example of the quote: ?Britain and America are two nations > divided by a common language.? > > Because... Ian Glendinning wrote: > ..I was talking about the sense of someone "being precious ... about > something". [Ian's original 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" > > dmb says: > What you've probably encountered is a sarcastic kind of slang. It means the > person is being too picky, too fussy or taking themselves too seriously. I > once heard someone insult Boulder, Colorado by saying, "it's a little too > precious." It can also be used in a condescending way, wherein you say "isn't > that precious?" in the same way you'd say it to a three year-old child. It's > a sarcastic way of mocking self-importance or some other misplacement of > values. 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
