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 !

@42goingon90

'Please get back to myself as soon as possible.'

'I will send yourself an email when it's ready.'

Hahaha this is the worst!!! 👏🏼

There is a garden centre near me that has a "Gifting Department".

I think 'to gift' is correct, but 'gifted' in the sense of being given a present rather than having special talents is not. So it is okay to say you are going to gift your beautiful heirloom plastic smurf to your grandchild. but not okay to say you gifted them that same treasure.

'Listen up people!' really pisses me off.

Oh and as @42goingon90' said 'I spoke to yourself the other day, and hoped I'd get a call to myself soon' is sooooooooooo irksome!

What came first, language or dictionaries? Language is alive, it evolves, morphs and mutates. Dictionaries simply catalogue words that have been accepted into common usage. If enough people use "gift" as a verb, yet the dictionaries do not list it as such, then it is the dictionaries that are wrong, not the people.

Also, yes, gifted is a verb, as in 'my child is gifted'. You don't gift someone something

Er, gifted is an adjective in your example, not a verb.

It’s grammatically correct but it does sound a bit clumsy/formal.

But they’re not actually wrong...

YADNBU!!! I hate that so much and see it all the time these days.....

Haven't RTFT so apologies if this has already been mentioned - but the one time I think it's allowed is in a legal context - such as you are allowed to gift a person £xxx before they are liable for tax, or whatever. I think I've seen that on financial websites, and took it to be the official language......

@Wimpeyspread
"Still a noun, therefor ‘invitation’ "

Well, it's still a thread of not exactly life changing linguistic intolerance, therefore "therefore"

@Musmerian

While my heart is with you the truth is that language is not static and changes all the time. I hate the word relatable and told my students not to use it for a few years but now it’s in academic journals over the place. If we all spoke like people did in the 1930s we’d sound very odd. I find gotten particularly grating and think of it as American but in fact it was in use in the 18th Century and fell out of use. You can’t stem the tide!

Hmm interesting about the word gotten. I have always used it as well as obviously my children have. I have argued with so many other people over the years that it is an actual word...

OP.. Thank You SO MUCH! I thought it was just me. YADNBU. It's made my day knowing that there is still some sanity out there in these crazy times.

I also hate playdate but that's not nearly as bad

A new one that seems to have crept in is takeaway - not as in a meal you buy when you can't be bothered to cook, but as in "Rachael, what were your takeaways from that discussion?" I think it may be American as our vicar uses it, but it really annoys me as I'm hearing it used quite often.

I have a curated wardrobe & I source things for my home. Yes I'm a dick!

I had a pretty good education but can't remember half of the rules apart from the obvious ones like could have. I also think language evolves & like shortcuts.

Yadnbu.

I give you: healthful, healthfully. An abomination that I keep seeing on YouTube.

YADNBU. I suspect it's not ignorance that drives this type of usage, but laziness or following linguistic "fashion".

True, which is why we must resolutely weed out the annoying mutations, before they take root

Brilliant chestnut

'Can you borrow me your pen'
'It gives me all the feels'
🤬

@42goingon90

'Please get back to myself as soon as possible.'

'I will send yourself an email when it's ready.'

Gifted doesn't bother me - but these put my teeth on edge. As does the increasingly common leaving out of 'to be' as in 'sofa needs gone' or 'washing needs sorted' argh!

Fragrance is a noun, not a verb. Those pongy candles are not “'fragranced”, they’re scented. Or stinky, tbh.

@Mrgrinch

Well isn't it nice to know people are complete arseholes.

You're all pathetic. I left school at 12, am I not worthy to speak now because I might use the wrong word?

Funny how those with the most education are often the least pleasant because of it. Knowing how to use the right words doesn't make you superior.

Agree with this point. It's so childish correcting people. Self styled pedants!

I understand that language evolves and it always has, however there are some examples where it just makes a word useless. The word ‘literally’ now has the definition as ‘abstract’ in some dictionaries. It’s incorrect use by a decent amount of people means the word adds nothing anymore.

I know it’s really common in a lot of England now but I dislike the change of the past continuous (I was sat vs I was sitting etc).

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 haven't read the whole thread so apologies if anyone has said this, but "oh, you shouldn't feel obligated". NO. IT'S OBLIGED. Obligated is not a word.

I hate gifted too.

It gives me pain.

But it is used in legal documents in the US.

”Rachael, what were your takeaways from that discussion?”

“Mine’s the fish and chips, but I could see some merit in the kebab too...”