Can posters please stop saying ...

[EasterIsland]

... "gifted" instead of "given" [to you] or "gave" [to someone else].

Thank you.

But this is actually very much a known saying 🤷‍♀️

YANBU

I hate that mismy "think" bollocks as well.

The pp asking the op who she thinks she is to be telling other people what to say, just reminds me why I should never take mn responses seriously 🙄

"Gotten" after "have" is correct grammar in certain countries. Scotland, for example.

Also, people who use "dear reader..."

I know and I fully accept my dislike of it is my problem.

Having said that, I truly think most people are saying it now because it's also an Amercianism.

See also 'pissed' for angry. So many people reaching for the vodka in my overactive mind 😁

I hate it too. But I hate quite a few words so I think it's my problem

I wish people would stop saying 'playing games' as in 'we are staying in tonight, having a wine and playing games' sounds so fucking twee and upper class. Also see 'going for a long walk before lunch'

Fuck off

I am with you. It's very irritating.

Can I also ask everyone to use the correct tense of 'to lie' (as in 'lie down') and stop saying 'laying'.

Hens are laying when they produce eggs.

Humans are lying when they rest in bed. (Not 'laying' in bed.)

And while we're being pedantic, can we cut out 'off of'.
As in 'I fell off of the wall'.

God knows where that came from but I hear it all the time .

You fell off a wall. Not off of a wall.

Thank you and Happy New Year.

I agree OP I HATE "gifted" - unless it's about leaving your priceless collection of bronze age querns to a museum or similar, then it would be normal to say they were "gifted by xxx" etc.

Of course language changes and it's come into more common usage, and I'm sure it's officially correct, but I can still hate it. "MIL gifted DS a toy garage for Christmas" aarggh! It sounds so pretentious and up yourself when "gave" would do exactly the same job.

Just pretend they are all the children of Scottish parents. 😀

The only thing that bothers me is in spoken conversation when people say "like" a lot. I do it too and hate myself for it. Don't know how to stop it.

"Like, the only thing that bothers me is, like, in spoken conversations when people, like, say 'like' a lot." 😭

Or "right"!

"I saw your sister in town yesterday, right, and she had that new puppy with her, right. It's so cute, right!"

I hate it but if others want to use it who am I to tell them to stop.

“My brother gave it to me for Christmas.” (a bit long and specific, “gave me it” is rather grabby IMO, as is…)

But this is fascinating. Why the hell is it grabby to use the word "gave"???

But if that’s exactly what they’re doing, why shouldn’t they say so?

I hate the "think" business and along with "Let's call them Alice and John".

I hate the overuse of the would. Some people on here use would for every single verb in the past tense. I don't mean when it is used to recall things that regularly happened in the past such as "We would eat raspberries and cream at Grandma's". I mean people telling an entire story in the past tense with every fucking verb would.

Op has definitely achieved what they set out to do ~ everyone is riled 😆

I feel your pain.

I keep finding myself saying 'innit though?' and I have no idea why I can't bloody stop! 🙈

"The bus is taking ages" - Innit though?

"The rain looks like it's about to stop" - Innit though? (This one doesn't even make sense).

YABU

Scroll past a post or even leave a thread if a word offends you. I love MN diversity both from around the UK and worldwide. That means a range of language style and words use, grammar and spelling. English changes. Unless I cannot understand something I don’t care or if I’m irritated move to another thread.

I clicked on this thread for self flagellatory reasons pure entertainment.

I now realise:
My English A level was completely wasted on me (someone will be along in a minute to spell and grammar check my post to confirm this)
How much of a cunt I am for having a regional dialect
That I must do a stint in MN jail for splitting infinitives and other syntax related crimes

I do spell check every post I read, I can't help it but I'm not a complete dick, I don't flag it up and humiliate posters.

I just shout "apostrophe in the wrong place" and smack my forehead and then breathe. There's no need to point it out to people.

@LimeTwists what is wrong with this?

I’d also like it if they stopped saying, ‘Can someone recommend me a…’.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Please could we add 'I'm sat/I was sat' to your excellent list? It's 'I am sitting/I sat.'

Coz it's wankery @WetBandits

I'm gifting you this message 💝

Why?

Because you've said so?

Ok then.

Not

I don't actually say it but I may just start now

Alternative answer four... 'It was a gift' (or that's how I would answer, anyway).

That said, with the exception of offensive language, I find policing of language on the internet pretty tedious. Disliking the misuse of there/their/they're isn't the interesting personality trait people like to think it is 🙃