[Closed] 'Gifted'... when did that creep into the English language? Or is it me...

I normally hate the whole 'verbing nouns' thing, but it seems [url= http://grammarist.com/usage/gift/ ]gifting[/url] has a long and legitimate history.

One advert recently exhorted me to "shop our deluxe gifting range."

Reader, I killed them. All of them.

And "hosting" - that's another one.

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Wwaswas wins the interwebz!

Outstanding.

[quote=Esme ]And "hosting" - that's another one.

Hosting as in hosting a website, in an Alien sense or is there some other funny context I've not come across?

is there some other funny context I've not come across?

Yes a dinner party. Obviously you were NFI.

The one that's currently bugging me is use the of 'lighted' instead of 'lit'.

How about " for free".??? That winds me up something rotten.

"In cinemas Wednesday"

I will kill again.

OMFG - language is evolving and we can't control it to keep it just how we liked it 9 years ago. Forsooth!

The one that's currently bugging me is use the of 'lighted' instead of 'lit'.

"In cinemas Wednesday"

I will kill again.

Chill bae

UA woman on the radio this evening talked about having spent "a bunch of time" with somebody. At least, I think that's what she said, she may have said "a bunch of thyme". She was American so she could have been referring to 'urbs.

What currently boils my piss is everyone feeling "blessed". Nothing grammatically wrong with it (as far as my English gsce leads me believe), but blessed by whom? I'm pretty sure that most people I see posting don't believe in a higher power, so who is doing all of this blessing? Did the pope pop round in his pointy had and oblige? If you feel 'fortunate' or 'lucky' or 'loved' just say that, why the religious lingo creep? What next, do you feel "atoned" because someone accepted your apology??

Aw bless...

Aw bless...

touche

bensales - Member
The one that's currently bugging me is use the of 'lighted' instead of 'lit'.

captainsasquatch - Member
Why?

To me it just doesn't flow as well. I think it's because the material I grew up as a kid reading always used lit (Blyton, Ransome, etc), but more modern stuff, particularly American authors as that link says, uses lighted.

Often appearing on this forum is "gotten" instead of got and "smart" instead of clever. I don't know why people feel the need to adopt annoying Americanisms.

OTOH, I suppose most of the language spoken in the USA came from England....

OTOH, I suppose most of the language spoken in the USA came from England....

and sometimes the Americanisms that grate are actually the older form of the language and it's the British English that has changed

My pet hate is "learnings". People who I otherwise like and respect come out with crap like "so what learnings should we take away from this?". I haven't checked, and frankly don't care whether this is actually correct. Just, COME ON. Stop trying to sound businessy. We have plenty of ways to say this without sounding like an idiot.

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"Around" instead of "about" eg. "we've been working on some ideas around X".

Dunno why it irritates me so much, except the first time I heard it was on a piss-boilingly fatuous "leadership training" course that a previous employer sent me on, and all the loathing got distilled into that phrase...

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What exactly was wrong with "on"?

To me it just doesn't flow as well. I think it's because the material I grew up as a kid reading always used lit (Blyton, Ransome, etc)

Exactly, shocking that people no longer talk like Enid Blyton characters.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
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What exactly was wrong with "on"?

Because it doesn't universalize (with a z) the all-encompassing entity?

Everyone feeling blessed on Facebook can do one.

"The electric" instead of "electricity" as the noun.

Is this correct usage, or informal? Never heard the phrase til I moved here, and it really grates for some reason.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
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What exactly was wrong with "on"?

Thank Christ it's not just me. Keeping or staying across story can FRO too.

"In cinemas Wednesday"

Especially when it is followed up with "January thirteen" instead of thirteen[u]th[/u].

CaptainFlashheart - Member

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What exactly was wrong with "on"?

I was told this had become their generic term for content rather than listing all of the ways in which it can be seen/heard e.g. Digital TV/Online/Sky/Virgin/Apps etc.

Still don't see why 'on' wasn't sufficient mind.

It's very Siobhan Sharpe isn't it.

My current piss-boiler is "inbox." As in "inbox me that report." WTAF is wrong with "email"?

Exactly, shocking that people no longer talk like Enid Blyton characters.

That might change soon, I've just heard they're doing a film adaptation of The Magic Faraway Tree.

Especially when it is followed up with "January thirteen" instead of thirteenth.

You need a 'the' in there also.

My current piss-boiler is "inbox." As in "inbox me that report." WTAF is wrong with "email"?

I reckon the "inbox me" might have started on Facebook? Pre-messenger, when threads/posts were being discussed in public, or in for sale posts, once two people want to make the conversation private, one would ask the other to send them a message to their Facebook inbox, which I presume then got shortened to "inbox me" and this has now crept to normal e-mail. At least that was where I first noticed the term. I think I may have used the term on Facebook myself. I try not to get too bothered about language evolving like this though - you might as well try and stop the tide. The useful stuff remains and the crap stuff gets discarded. Verbalisation of nouns is sometimes a fantastic way of being economic with words. Some of it works, some of it is a bit clunky.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
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What exactly was wrong with "on"?

Presumably "on" was more suited to when the BBC had one channel and people spoke just like you'd still like them to? 😛

I still hate "edit" when referring to a video.

When I come to power, DD.......

I rather like "off of". It informs me of the cretins I should ignore.

At work the management have started "reaching out" to us instead of contacting us as they used to do. As in " Your line manager will reach out to you to discuss these changes with you". I can't tell the difference but I'm sure it feels better for them. We are a UK company not American.

I ain't got time for all this shit, I'm off to shop a sale.

So something that irritates me is people starting a statement with "so".

Meet [s]with[/s]
Swap [s]out[/s]

STOP ADDING EXTRA WORDS FOR NO GOOD REASON! (Please.....)

I've mentioned the misuse of epicentre to mean centre (only better), but the other day I saw it used when talking about an earthquake and they said the epicentre was five km beneath the surface. You can have that one free.

Cougar - Moderator
My current piss-boiler is "inbox." As in "inbox me that report."

I hate "refute" when they just mean "deny" but it seems some dick at the OED thinks that's just awesomization and enrichment of language rather than shite 🙁

'flick me an email' ??

how do you do that ?... 😈

you 'flick' a bogey when you pick your nose......

"two times fewer", half then.