Gifted.

[Winterwoollies]

Have I missed something?

When was there a huge shift from ‘given’ to ‘gifted’? I didn’t get that email. If I had I’d have sent a few choice words back.

I don’t like it, I tell you. Who do I need to call to get it changed back? Do I need to blame slebs on Insta for talking constantly about all the random crap they get given for free?!

I’m sorry if there’s already been threads on this. I am a dipper-inner-and-outer.

AIBU for despising the overused new term of gifted? To me it still means kids that are good at things and stuff.

God yeah, burglarised is awful!

@TheFormerPorpentinaScamander

I almost posted this the other day so yanbu imo.

But I actually googled it and apparently it has always been a verb and therefore to day you were gifted, or gifted something has always been correct.
I still hate it though. Along with gotten. That can get to fuck too.

OMG yes, 'gotten' has really gotten on my tits over the last couple of years

I remember helping out at a school BBQ a few years ago.

I must've served at least 70 or 80 adults and children and almost every single one of them said...

Can I get a burger
Can I get a hotdog
Can I get a bottle of water

What the fuck happened to can I have? 🤬🤯😂

A barman can give you a glass of wine; that doesn’t mean he intends you to have it free of charge. If he gifts you a glass, the lack of monetary exchange is obvious. There’s a subtle nuance in the wording which changes the implication, and that’s a beauty of English.

Gifted is used in circumstances when a gift was given. I used it to explain a gifted deposit, which is the legal term.

Surely gifts are always given though?
I give my nearest and dearest gifts at Christmas.
Saying I gifted them gifts sounds stupid!

@WorraLiberty I know someone who would tell you "can I have..." is wrong and it should be "may I have..."

YANBU. I hate it

@TheFormerPorpentinaScamander

Surely gifts are always given though? I give my nearest and dearest gifts at Christmas. Saying I gifted them gifts sounds stupid!

@WorraLiberty I know someone who would tell you "can I have..." is wrong and it should be "may I have..."

That's true and I was going to include that in my posts for any pedants out there

But 'Please may I have' would seem a bit too formal in my area, so it changed from 'can I have' to 'can I get' at some point and I really don't know when 👀

I also thought what on earth happened to given. Its not that gifted is incorrect its just i got to 40 hearing it only used maybe two or three times and then over the last 2 years its almost etirely replaced given.

Why?

YANBU.
It is not necessary in any way and ever so slightly pretentious.
This along with sourced reminds me of Friends when Joey uses a thesaurus to write a letter for Monica and Chandler! 😂