It’s GIVEN not GIFTED FFS !!!

[TriflePudding]

Oh god it’s all over Facebook and it’s driving me crazy - “I have here to gift ...a tatty old sofa I can’t be arsed to get rid of myself so I’m fobbing it off on someone else”
or “I have been gifted a bag of baby clothes but they are too small, does anyone know if anyone in need ?”
Or “looking to gift some donations to local women’s refuge/children’s hospital- who do I get in touch with ?”

JUST FUCK OFF !! Say “given” and while we are at it just donate stuff quietly without any fanfare !

YABU - it is perfectly acceptable to use “gifted” as a verb

Or

YANBU - the word “gifted” being used as a verb was invented by Beelzebub himself.

Please feel free to add your own !

Agree with most people that the three worst offenders are:

Gifted - It is not a priceless heirloom and you are not Princess Ann
Sourced - Did you go on a dig in the middle of Patagonia to retrieve it from the bowels of the earth? No, thought not.
Curated - it's a cupboard of clothes not the Guggenheim museum.

Gah.

Bananablondie

You're not alone. I hate 'I was sat' but I believe it's regional, fortunately not my region, so I try not to be too critical.

And it is used incorrectly.

This doesn’t really mean anything with such a rich, quickly changing language like English that's full of irregularity. What’s accepted parlance in one country or region isn’t the same as another - and will change in time.

If you’re ‘irritated’ by something, then no ones forcing you to use it. The constant complaining threads on MN however, get very old.

'I was sat' - to me - is a nuance thing again. It's about frustration - implies being stuck somewhere, not quite of your own free will - basically an abbreviation of 'I was sat there like a lemon'. Or in the third person implying that someone's altogether too comfortable where they're not welcome. 'There she was, sat in my kitchen, drinking my tea and eating my biscuits'.

I don't mind gifted in the context of a sponsored social media post.

However, for gifts between mere mortals, one person gives a gift to another, and that person is given a gift.

@littlepattilou

When someone says there was a 'not insignificant amount...'

Just say there was a significant amount FFS!!!!!!!

If someone was meant to meet you at midday, and they didn't turn up til 12.20pm, you wouldn't say they got there 'not early...' You'd say 'they got there late!'

I hate this, my husband phrases sentences like this all the time.

Agree!! I’m bloody sick of it. What is wrong with people??

Even the National Trust were at it a few years ago when I was on a visit. Drives me mad.

Depending on the context it is GIVEN or DONATED. NEVER GIFTED!!

The End.

Interview as a verb always used to mean that you would be on the interview panel, not that you would be interviewed as a candidate. 'I interviewed for a new job on Monday' now has two possible meanings, which is unfortunate.

@TellingBone

A shop is an establishment from which you make purchases. It's not the contents of your supermarket trolley [which is not a 'cart' in the UK]. eg 'Money off your shop!'

You're not 'bias'. You're 'biased'.

The words 'discreet' and 'discrete' are not interchangeable.

I so agree with this. Also when an advert says "shop this at... such a place". Or "shop the new Samsung now" (for example).

He also says, as does his mother "that should be fine". Is it fine or not??

I don't like it either, but I think its grammatically correct for those dialects. Its a past tense that makes sense in other Germanic languages.

What 'dialect' do Davina McCall and Jack Whitehouse speak?

It mixes up 2 past tenses:

I was sitting - imperfect
I sat - perfect

Although technically a Germanic language, English has more a French and Latin words in it than Germanic ones.

@Shelby2010

I give you REVERT. (Please take it away.)

I was sent an email by a colleague saying ‘Please read the attached documents and revert back to me.’

I cannot reply to the email & comment on the documents without saying ‘No. I was never you, therefore I can’t revert back to you.’ But the person who sent it is quite senior to me & it wouldn’t go down well. So I’m stuck.

Revert in this sense is an Indian English expression. My favourite Indianism is the verb “prepone”, which does not exist in British English but is, with impeccable logic, the opposite of postpone.

When I was at uni I came back to my car after a supermarket shop to find this note on the windscreen:

"I saw you as I was sat in me Austin Metro. Call me"

@TatianaBis

I don't like it either, but I think its grammatically correct for those dialects. Its a past tense that makes sense in other Germanic languages.

What 'dialect' do Davina McCall and Jack Whitehouse speak?

It mixes up 2 past tenses:

I was sitting - imperfect
I sat - perfect

Although technically a Germanic language, English has more a French and Latin words in it than Germanic ones.

Its the difference between Old Norse influenced dialects in the former Danelaw areas and Anglo-Saxon (presumably northern French).

@VestaTilley

Agree!! I’m bloody sick of it. What is wrong with people??

Even the National Trust were at it a few years ago when I was on a visit. Drives me mad.

Depending on the context it is GIVEN or DONATED. NEVER GIFTED!!

The End.

Were you asked to make a gift aid declaration on your gift at the National Trust property? It’s one of the few places where the proper use of ‘to gift’ would be appropriate.

I think "I'm loving and 'I love' are different. I love indicates a situation condition that i don't expect to change such as I love my kids and my husband. I'm loving means something temporary so at the moment I'm loving watching Married at First Sight Australia and eating ham sandwiches for breakfast but I'm aware I will probably move on from them soon.

In that case McDonalds shouldn't have used "I'm loving it" as a slogan, since it implies that enjoyment is temporary!

@TheKeatingFive

And it is used incorrectly.

This doesn’t really mean anything with such a rich, quickly changing language like English that's full of irregularity. What’s accepted parlance in one country or region isn’t the same as another - and will change in time.

If you’re ‘irritated’ by something, then no ones forcing you to use it. The constant complaining threads on MN however, get very old.

Agreed. They come up ALL the time. Moaning about the way people use certain words is infinitely more tiresome than the way people use certain words.

"I was sat in the cafe" means you were forcibly pushed into a chair.

@TatianaBis

When I was at uni I came back to my car after a supermarket shop to find this note on the windscreen:

"I saw you as I was sat in me Austin Metro. Call me"

Oh the mention of the Austin Metro really gives that note an added sexual charge!

Its the difference between Old Norse influenced dialects in the former Danelaw areas and Anglo-Saxon (presumably northern French).

And BBC presenters are speaking old dialects because?

Oh the mention of the Austin Metro really gives that note an added sexual charge!

IKR

[quote Honeybobbin]@NotFabulousDarling you're talking nonsense, invite is a verb, it can never be a noun. If I invite you by phone then it's a verbal invitation, never 'an invite'.
Also, yes, gifted is a verb, as in 'my child is gifted'. You don't gift someone something.[/quote]
The gifted as in "my child is gifted" is an adjective not a verb.

There is a verb "to gift" as mentioned by pp, used in a legal/financial context.

'I'm shook' - no you're not!!!!

If you’re ‘irritated’ by something, then no ones forcing you to use it. The constant complaining threads on MN however, get very old.

The complaining posts about complaining threads are equally old.

If you're irritated no-one is forcing you to read it.

@ShimmyShimmyYa

"decimated"- incorrect use has given me the rage for a couple of decades diminished by one tenth, you say? that's really not so bad even the newscasters didn't get the memo- it's everywhere strongly suspect the fight is lost (and don't get me started on "disinterested")

This!

And also reluctant and reticent used incorrectly.