Invite

[GreenHairDontCare]

Why is everyone saying 'invite' when they mean invitation?

And why does it annoy me? I am pretty easily narked tbf but they're all at it.

'I've got an invite to Alysha's party'

'Where did you leave the invite for that wedding?'

'I'm just making the invites for my birthday'

STOP IT. It's an epidemic. I've now banned my family from saying it and they know there will be consequences. I can't bear it.

Has anyone else noticed this? Why is it a thing?

Just me then

Nope, I hate it too. Along with people incorrectly using take and bring.

For example, someone saying (in reply to someone else saying they, say, can't get a babysitter): 'if I were you, I'd bring the baby with me'.

It's TAKE! I'd take the baby with me.

Drives me barmy.

Oh I'm glad it's not just me. I've no idea why it irks me so much, but it does. Less when they mean fewer is another one that gives me the shudders, but I've trained the kids out of that one.

Invite is an information version of the noun invitation, as well as being a verb. It's valid.

Informal lol!

I don't like it either. Another is 'gifting' - sets my teeth on edge. Since when did 'gift' become a verb? Just stop it!!

Oh god, gifting.

I hate people saying their pissed at someone/something. Pissed off. It's pissed OFF. Otherwise IMO you're saying you're drunk at someone.

And while we're here STOP with the 'myself' nonsense. My partner and myself have been invited to x y z. It was delivered to myself FGS - it's ME or I.

This way to pedant's corner >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

See also quote/quotation.

That's nothing compared to the misuse of reflexive pronouns. I feel my fists clench every time.

"If you could give it to myself then that would be great" [slap!]

I don't have an issue with derivation such as 'text' becoming a noun or 'invite' as a noun, but more grammatical parts of speech grate on me.

I'd say that invite is a fairly accepted version of (n.) invitation though. I suspect it's common enough in corpora for you to accept it and move on.

AND why do people on here keep saying

"I'm pissed at DH"

and

"AIBU to be pissed at her?"

It's PISSED OFF unless you're American...and the amount of posters I've seen doing it recently points to them being UK based...there are not many Americans here.

Task as a verb.

"I was tasked to take the minutes of the meeting".

Nnnnnnggggggggg

Being pissed at someone/something is an Irish thing as well so not just American.

I'm with you OP, I hate it too

It's not as bad as "I was sat on the chair" though. Unless someone picked you up and placed you on the chair, you were sitting on it. Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I'm Irish and nobody I know has ever used "pissed" to mean annoyed. It's "pissed OFF". Pissed means drunk and always has.

Or the two, to and too issue. How hard is it? Gives me the rage. However, etiquette question here. If you see (on Facebook in particular) someone misspelling something, especially you're and your, is it ok to correct it? I'm trying not to be a grammar or spelling Nazi here, but I'm genuinely interested in opinions.
On a related subject, a local double glazing company had an advert about keeping "drafts" out. Couldn't help myself, so I have pointed it out to them. The woman was mortified.

Haha saw the title of your thread and thought 'I think you mean "invitation" don't you?'

But WashBaskets it's very difficult to correct someone without causing embarrassment, even though you are doing them a favour! It takes a lighter touch than I have, anyway.

"Borrow you"

It's fucking LEND!!!

I don't know anyone i r l who talk the same way as MNs write on here. My favourite hate is people being "invested" in something or someone. I find the language used on here very strange. Perhaps people are trying to convey something but I think they are showing something that they probably would not like to be

"Sourcing" things

Partake instead of participate.

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