Gifted!!!!! What is the fascination with this made up word??!!

[Lanzarotelady]

I have been gifted??!!

No you've been given!

Where has it come from and why?

Drives me insane.

Me too

One word: “Influencers”

Agree. I was given a gift.

Of course!

I hate gifted. I also hate curated (as in the company has carefully "curated" a subscription box).

Yeah I think it comes from online games and platforms where you can give people a little “gift”

Yup, I hate it too.

Glad I’m not the only one who can’t stand it. As PP says - its popularity originates from social media influencers and it has subsequently infiltrated everyday language. Having said that, I never hear it in real life - only on the internet.

Yes, the verb in that sentence is "give".

You can give someone a cup of tea but it doesn't mean mean you've "cup of tead" them.

Agree! Annoys the crap out of me, too.

Well if it was a gift it at least makes sense. I'm not sure it's worth getting this annoyed over

Yes!
I fucking hate it.
Along with super instead of very.
And bloody elevate.

Awful. As is 'spendy' for expensive.

But I'm all for expanding vocabulary, even if I don't like the new words (I'm currently on the 'shagging' thread - that's a eye-opener!).

It's a shit word for shit people.

I am INCANDESCENT with rage.

All words are made up.

I grind my teeth every time I see this word written down. None of my friends have ever used it thankfully.

I file it along with the phrase "reach out" or "reached out". Just say contact or contacted for heaven's sake! 😡

No need to get the Indyrage over it

Ok vocab police

It is quite an old word. Essentially, all words are made up, then they drop into everyday use.

It's not any more "made up" than any other word, and it's not new it's just more popular.

Per the Oxford English Dictionary:

"The earliest known use of the verb gift is in the late 1500s.

OED's earliest evidence for gift is from before 1600, in Wife in Morel's Skin.

It is also recorded as a noun from the Middle English period (1150—1500)."

So I guess it's newer than the noun form but still pretty old!

I'm pretty sure Latin has a distinct word for "to give something as a gift" as opposed to just "to give" although that's a guess based on the fact Italian does (regalare v dare). It's a slightly different meaning and I like having lots of words and better specificity so I like it.

So yeah weird thing to be mad about. If you hear it too much maybe you're on the socials too often though as I can't say it crops up lots irl.

Shagging is surely a fine word.

‘Shop the collection’ on the other hand is an offence against humanity. And as for the ‘shop the coat’ I saw the other day … just fuck off.

And yes, ‘gifted’ is very infra dig.

Americans. Goes along with burglarized and other such wordmangling abominations.

All words are made up and assimilated into the lexicon

You can be given something that isn't a gift, you aren't just gifted everything that is given

People can also be "gifted" with talents or knowledge...

Surely all words are "made up" though?
Just some more recently than others!

Language changes all the time though, doesn't it, otherwise we'd all be speaking in Shakespearean and biting our thumbs at people we don't like.