Jan-Anders, Huh ? is that a correction or a suggestion ? DMB, no, not sarcastic nor mocking, nor even about self-importance either, about attaching importance to a particular aspect of a particular thing, [in English that is not Coloradoese, anyway in the "being precious about .." sense. Even as a generalized trait of an individual, I wouldn't see it as needing to be sarcastic or mocking. Ho hum.]
Jo, Your is is an example of why no conversation ever seems to get to square one, let alone have even a chance of passing go in this place. #Fail - due to my being over precious about setting up a thread topic (not even mentioned yet) - as only Marsha and possibly Horse recognized so far. Ian On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jan-Anders Andersson <janander...@telia.com> wrote: > 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 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
