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 !

I agree with the awfulness of all of these.

I am going to offer "shoe" and "trouser", currently advertised in the window of my local M&S. I like my shoes and trousers to come in pairs, thank you very much.

I also object, very strongly, to "a red lip" and "a smoky eye".

"Plated up" is another horror.

Oh, and it's not "stay home". It's "stay AT home".

@QueenAnnesHat

'Excited for' As in 'I am excited for my holiday.' Another Americanism.

Yes I hate this too.

And "impact" as a verb unless it's to do with asteroids. Affect is a really good word. Or you can say "have an impact on".

As pp have said, ‘to gift’ has a specific, useful meaning.

I dislike the use of ‘disinterested’ to mean ‘uninterested’. If you go back far enough then they are synonymous but ‘disinterested’ specifically implies impartiality and the distinction is useful. It irritates me to see this eroded.

Otherwise, it’s homophones for me. Fazed / phased and discrete / discreet. They’re all over MN.

DameCelia

@BewareTheBeardedDragon
Needs gone etc are Scottish dialect. See also Pittsburgh English.
(I swear I type that at least once a week on here hmm)

That is interesting and I am glad to know it. I wonder if all the poster using it on my local Home Counties fb page are Scottish

I agree @BewareTheBeardedDragon... I assumed 'needs gone' etc was a regional thing but I'm pretty sure the people who I am increasingly seeing using it aren't from those regions.

haha in my head i silently correct every "gifted"

I can't believe the number of people who can't tell the difference between 'to' and 'too' anymore

Isn't that normally just a typo? I did it myself the other way and noticed after posting that I'd missed off an o. But MN won't let you edit posts, so...

Oh how I wish I had time to care about this sort of shit....... get a life springs to mind

'floor plates'?!

maybemu

Get a life , or be “gifted” a life ?

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

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

These mean different things! If you imagine a scale
Insignificant >the bit in the middle >significant

Not insignificant doesn't just mean only significant, it means everything that isnt insignificant. Its different

@Timpeall

Gotten has always been in use in Ireland. Us and the 'muricans.

Whats its corrects tenses then?

It always grates with me, because it seems to be possess only one tense - "I've gotten", "We've gotten", "I've gotten myself a new car", etc..

Surely it should be used only for the third person plural ie when there are multiple possessors, and the singular use or second person should be "got"?

Or is it a word indicating past tense? I don't find that it enhances meaning.

yesyoudoknowme Mon 15-Feb-21 19:44:13

'Hunny' or even worse 'hun'. angryangryangry

...and the other related ones - "Hunny Bunny" and "Honey Bunch".

Another thing that really winds me up is when people think they're being clever and writing/saying 'and I' but they've got it wrong and it should be 'and me'. This is especially annoying because it's often self-styled 'grammar nazis' who do it.

An ex-colleague of mine used to enjoy pulling people up on their grammar (in meetings/in emails etc) but she once wrote in a newsletter 'don't forget, you can pop in and see Sarah and I whenever you need to'. I should have corrected her but I didn't want to sink to her level. I still feel gleeful when I think of it!

@poppycat10

I can't believe the number of people who can't tell the difference between 'to' and 'too' anymore

Isn't that normally just a typo? I did it myself the other way and noticed after posting that I'd missed off an o. But MN won't let you edit posts, so...

I don't think so, it's too predictable. 'Too' used at the end of a sentence and often with a 'to' thrown in as well. People seem to be writing 'too' when they would say a long 'to'.

'She goes to the same school my daughter went too'.

Get a life , or be “gifted” a life ?

Get. Be gifted a life implies the exact opposite of the need for you find something more worthy to fill your time.

• Everything has to be 'a conversation', nobody has discusses, or talks about any more;
• Videos are 'watched back' never just watched, or watched again
• People seem to have lost the ability to use the word died, it was 'passed away' for it bit but now its gone full american 'passed'. You pass an exam, or you pass something on the street, or you pass the salt, or you 'pass a motion' either in the sense of a meeting, or, having a shit.

(That's another one - adults using the term 'poo' all the time. Are you 3? ) ...and when people do die, they are always 'loved ones' Really? Maybe some of them were complete bastards and everyone is glad to see the back of them?

Brought instead of bought.

Shop. The. Edit

Makes me want to gnaw my arm off.

@ShiningGonnaShine

I'm an English teacher and also a fan of the whole 'language evolves' thing... I try not to get worked up about things that aren't, by definition, 'right' (apart from when I'm marking students' grammar, obviously).

HOWEVER, I've noticed this new trend of saying things like 'the washing needs hung out', or 'the dog needs walked'. I can't help but find this very irritating.

It's incredibly irritating and spreading like a rash.

An MN one has to be "mortified." Nobody who uses it seems to understand what it means.

I blame the Commodores.

Jackie, oh, you set the world on fire
You came and gifted us
Your love it lifted us higher and higher

@PerfectionistProcrastinator

Lots of American words and phrases are being used in the UK more.

Math, instead of maths
Take out, instead of take away
Store, instead of shop

I don’t like it

Yes! I'd like to add: Mac'n'cheese - no, it's macaroni cheese on this side of the Atlantic Y'all - just no Yo'self - see above

Gentle reminder - makes me murderous.

Hacks - what? We used to say 'handy tips', didn't we?

Curated - pretentious if you don't work in a museum. See also 'research' in context of finding out straightforward things like when the next train is or where you can buy blue towels. Genuine research is something that mostly goes on in universities, libraries and laboratories.

to have 'a wine' ????
this is a new thing isn't it? where did this come from?

Gifted just makes me think “fisted”. I really don’t know why, it’s not something I have experience of.

I teach teenagers, and have noticed that they all now say ‘search it up’ as a weird hybrid of ‘search’ and ‘look it up’.

Do Americans adopt English phrases in the same we some of theirs have become popular here such as mac n cheese etc

It's becoming more and more common for children to say diapers, trash and so forth. I had a child ask me when recess was and could she have an eraser