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 hate play date too!

In my day it was ‘go and play at Geoff’s house’ or ‘Brian was coming over to play’

‘Can I get?’ and ‘Please can I?’

I assumed "date night was say a night of the week. So for a couple "date night might be Thursdays. "Oh I can't come out Thursday as its date night. "

I've seen this in Amercian Christian contexts.

As a random meal put it doesn't work....

I do know people who use it that way, Stick. Still sounds daft, IMO. You don’t ‘date’ your husband, surely - isn’t saying what you do when you’re not married?!

dating

Gifted sounds so... wanky.
Snuck sounds better though. Sneaked sounds like something a toddler would say, along with gotted

Well, yes Husky. I agree. I'm happy for the American usage as that's their norm - butg find it grates when I hear people here use it.

Someone 'gifted' me a box of nesquik, banana flavour......shitiest gift ever. Could it not at leased have been chocolate or a steak 🙄 what can I do with it?!

Agreed. I’m tired of Americanisms. Not because I have anything against Americans as people, but I don’t want the entire English-speaking world to sound like them.

'The one phrase I really can't stand is "Xxx wrote Zzz" instead of "Xxx wrote to Zzz". It doesn't make sense!'

It's a vestige of the (pretty much) lost English dative.

I used to work for a small ish Scottish company, we were bought by a massive American organisation (Reuters), within a week my boss had changed his out of office replies to say he was on ‘vacation’ instead of annual leave or holiday and the whole company started to use the phrase ‘reaching out’..

My (Australian) nephews insist on calling a bum a ‘butt’, pronounced almost like ’burt’.

🙄

Not hugely important in great scheme of things
Have an apple 🤗

An established couple having a date night to me sounds like things have gone a bit stale and they are trying to rekindle the romance!

If I come across someone using "reach out" instead of "contact" or "talk/write to" I instantly assume they're pretentious twats.

Every morning when I politely say 'morning, you alright' to one of my work colleagues, he replies 'I'm good thanks'. He's from Penge.

Whenever I heard 'reach out' to begin with, I automatically thought of the Four Tops.

Now, I think of the Daily Mail gleefully phoning up someone's PR for confirmation/denial of some gossip or other.

These are all really annoying, but does anyone else hate the way make up is described now. I cant think of many examples as I tune it out, but my daughter will tell me shes chosen ‘a mulberry lip’. This might well just be her though.

Customer at bar: “can I get a Pepsi?”
Me: “No, I’ll get it for you. Would you like ice?”

Annoys me every time

I'd find something different to get annoyed about

eergh, play date. hate it
ridiculous terminology.

I'm good thank you.
hmm, but are you actually good?

I couldn't work in a cafe/bar/restaurant nowadays, due to the fact that whenever a customer asked "Can I get ..." I would want to say "Sorry, we're not self-service".

Burglarised. Apparently it’s how they say burgled in America

Also see: obligated rather than obliged

Recently heard an American on the radio discussing how to solutionize the problem

Arreghhh this annoys me too as does..

Could care less....when the person clearly means they couldn't care less.
Also...i seen - no, you saw or i have seen.

Along the same lines, it rather grated on me that recipients of medals in the recent winter Olympic Games were deemed by announcers to have ‘medalled’.