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.

Medalled? That's just made my brain itch.
"Can I get" and "gifted" infuriate me. As does "mac and cheese." It's fecking macaroni cheese. It's really not hard.

I hate this. Along with "I have been tasked"

Re medalled, podiumed is even worse.

🤦🏻‍♀️ @Medalled

As opposed to www.google.co.uk/amp/s/blog.oxforddictionaries.com/amp/2012/08/10/meddling-with-nouns-whos-medalling-now/

Honestly hurts my brain.

I have been gifted... but now I am more normal, like

Anyway "invite" is my bugbear- makes my teeth grinding to hear "I received an invite". The noun is "invitation" in British English! [screams]

Smart to mean clever is everywhere now. It's just wrong.

My pet peeve.
Nobody is ever very busy or very stressed or very tired. Its all super, when did that happen?

I have started threads before on super. It's super annoying.

Medalled.. yup! Another friend (a very Scottish ‘mammy’) posted recently to say how proud her daughter had one a medal as she had never medalled before......

And as my dc constantly prove, Mad means angry/pissed off now, so mad no longer means mad? That's madness 🤣.

Sick now seems to mean ill. So that would mean we have to say nauseous to mean sick, but that doesn't mean actually being sick. It's a mess.

No, Sick is now cool like Wicked or Bad (blame Michael Jackson) back in the day or Peng even according to my daughter.

I can deal with that kind of sick but not when they use it to mean ill on Radio 4.

Every time we had to zumba to that JLo song about getting 'sick on the (dance)floor' I felt a bit... heurgh.

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

Brilliant!
"Can I get a Pepsi?" just sounds rude.
Another Americanism which sounds terribly rude to me is to "have" somebody do something, eg "call the window cleaner and have him clean the windows". It sounds like an imperious countess is ordering her minions around. "Call the window cleaner and ask him to clean the windows" is more polite. Perhaps it also reflects my uncertainty about whether the window cleaner will agree to my request .
Totally with OP re "gifted". I read somewhere that it came in International / Indian / Singaporean English, along with the fashion for present - tense phrases like "I'm loving it", as opposed to "I love it". Apparently it's simpler to learn. I may have got that muddled though.

My teenagers say "gotten" and I grit my teeth, but if they start saying "gifted" I will threaten to give them fewer gifts to talk about .

Surely the response "I have been gifted" is "are you a bit thick now?"

Anyway, dislike bubs for babies - Australian plague.
Ditto shop assistants saying "Is that what you're grabbing today?" Fuck. Right. Off.

Argh! Yes, so many phrases mentioned by PPs infuriate me - especially ‘Can I get’ and ‘reach out’

Also:

X number of sleeps until

Forever home

Traffic is slowing up - this one just baffles me. Surely traffic speeds up and slows down?

Mind you, none of it upsets me enough to strike the offenders off my Christmas card list!

I've never thought twice about 'can I get'. It's fairly common to hear that in Australia. At the pub. 'Can I get a beer yeah, cheers mate'.

Gifted however, that's wanky.

AJPTaylor oooo yes! Super annoying!

Ooh there’s a lot getting on my nerves on this thread. You are not being unreasonable OP.

Burglarise - it just sounds like a kid has made it up.
Could care less as well- if you could care less than surely it means you do care. It’s self explanatory!