to dislike the phrase ‘I have been gifted...’

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I’m in a group online related to food. More and more people are adding posts such as ‘I have just been gifted a bag of lentils’ or ‘last night my mum cane round and gifted me 3 tomatoes and a can of evaporated milk, what can I do with them?’

No doubt someone will come along and tell me that this was actually THE correct way to speak in 1795 and that saying ‘gave or given’ is just lazy but it just drives me up the wall. All I want to do is make a point about the word ‘gifted’ but no doubt it will get me kicked out of the group so I just sigh instead.

I'm the same but is it an American site? I think it's usual there.

Other one i don't like is need gone. Or need changed/ needs fixed or similar ... but I'm in the south and realise it's common dialect elsewhere.

I couldn't agree more op. It's on a par with "can I get" in shops.

Oh yes, me too. If someone includes it in an AIBU then they are definitely being unreasonable regardless of the rest of the story. (Same applies if they use the word ‘gotten’).

No. They have Been given something! If it was indeed a gift then they have been given a gift! It's some new trend....like starting every reply with "so..." don't buy into it and I'm sure it will soon die a death!

I assumed it was an Americanism too but it’s a very non American UK site. Does it make the process sound more exciting than it really is? ‘My mum gifted me a bag of potatoes she picked up on special offer for 3p yesterday’ Grrr.

And yes to the ‘needs gone’ brigade. Are you ordering me to come and buy it from you? Do you not realise you need to add a few more words into that pretend sentence? I would refuse to buy from anyone who said ‘needs gone.’

Snuck. As in, 'I snuck in'.

IT'S SNEAKED, FFS! Snuck is American and it is SO annoying!!!

Sorry, couldn't help myself

Sorry for thread hijack, OP. If someone wanted to 'gift' me something I'd struggle to not gift them a smack in the mouth in return.

Might still take the gift though

I am absolutely with you OP. I hate it. Please also see:

Frosting
Daycare
Play date
Date night
Take out

And many more that are now the norm here.

Burglarised.

Apparently it’s how they say burgled in America.

Oh and stroller

Yeah I hate the word 'gift' in general, so 'gifted' makes me even more stabby.

I hate it. To be gifted means to be talented in some respect, not to be the recipient of a bag of fecking lentils.

I might just start adding ‘ah, you were given an onion and half a bag of plain flour were you? How nice.’

American style grammar is increasing- language evolves - what can you do?

For ages I second guessed myself for saying I'm Fine thank you instead of I'm Good.

But creating a verb from a noun, now there's a thing. Best scuttle off to Pedants' Corner because you may offend someone otherwise with that opinion .

I'm with tallulah, I can't stand it.
"I'm looking for a gift for ..." You're looking for a present..
And gifted is worse. You were given...

Thank you my people. I’m gifted in... I went shopping to buy a gift...(though I would never say gift, I’d always go for present.)

I'm with you. The extent to which American English is taking over in the UK is getting quite ridiculous. There is an epidemic of 'moms' on MN and I can't imagine they are all from the West Midlands.

I don't understand why people get so het up about the words others choose to use.

We are all very different, we don't have to say the same things.

wow, this is whole new world of stuff for me to get annoyed at

I loathe it too, and have visions of potatoes beautifully wrapped with posh ribbons on them. Stroller is another one because you walk with it not stroll; it's a pushchair because that is what it does. Playdate reduces me to gibbering in a corner; what's wrong with saying going to see a friend. But the worse for me has to be loved ones. Friends and family, yes, loved ones is so twee.

"Please also see:

Frosting
Daycare
Play date
Date night
Take out"

But to be fair, there isn't a British word for play date, you'd have to say 'making a prior arrangement for children to play together at a certain time and place'. Playdates existed when I was a child, as did sleepovers, but there were no single words fr them.
Same for date night. The whole concept of a date night it quite new isn't it as dating was originally for people in the early stages of a relationship.

The 'can I get...' and 'ordering a takeout' is reaching epidemic levels now too. Also 'gotten' and 'reach out.'

I usually come on these threads to defend "gifted" as a perfectly good word that means something more precise than "given". However in this context I wouldn't like it either. A handful of vegetables is not so valuable that anyone needs to emphasise that it was a gift.

Yes firesuit, I don’t think anyone walks into a supermarket and thinks ‘Right, I need a present for Auntie Mabel, I know, I’ll buy her a reduced price leg of lamb, 3 wonky carrots and I’ll stick in that bag of rice flour I’ve had in the back of the cupboard for 2 years now.’

The first time I heard the word play date was when a mother was suggesting a get together between our two children. I thought I must have gone up in the world and made a posh friend as I had only ever heard and said ‘does so and so want to come out an play/come over and play’