Twee phraseology....must be me!

TBsNana, you are not alone! I also loathe this silly affectation.

I feel exactly the same.

We've just watched Celebrity Pottery Throwdown and at the start the potters were "gifted" some clay!

It’s the ‘Anonymous Members’ on Facebook, who are often asking ‘is anyone gifting a washing machine/tumble dryer/electric cooker…..’ that get on my nerves.

1. State who you are.

2. And say, ‘is anyone giving away?’ said item.

Do they somehow think using the term ‘gifting’ makes it sound more acceptable?

I loathe ‘gifted’ too. Just another thing to be a G.O.B. (Grumpy Old Bag) about.
And while I’m at it, people who aren’t American, who say e.g ‘Get off your ass.’ (Seen earlier today on MN.)
It’s ARSE!!!

What’s wrong with given?

I loathe gifted, I loathe posh even more.

Listen up gets my goat

Recently I've been helping a Chinese teenager with his English .
He's learnt most of it from watching Amwrican TV programmes and films .
He uses a great deal of slang.

I have to remember that a language isn't static it's dynamic and constantly changes.

I also dislike the word gifted.
And a lot of other words as well.

Curated and reaching out

Thank you everyone - so glad it's not just me. I try to remember as Esmay says - language isn't static...but think of me tomorrow "sampling the no doubt awesome, gifted coffee" 🤦

I know I shouldn't mind but I hate the word gotten. Some 'twee' person told me that it was in common usage in old English and it crops up in Shakespeare or Chaucer or maybe both. I know language is evolving all the time. I don't care, it still sounds wrong to me and I don't like it.

While we are on the subject, I agree Witzend, an ass is another word for donkey and what you sit on is your ARSE.

I grit my teeth when people say 'awesome' about something very ordinary. Awesome is for moon landings or similar.

You sit on your bottom.

I had a conversation with our new broadband suppliers the other day when they talked me through how to put right what they say is a common problem, and the young man said amazing and awesome in reply to everything I said, none of which was in the least bit amazing or awesome. I can only imagine he has led a very sheltered life.

eazybee Bottom, bum, backside, tush, tuchus, derriere, botty, situpon or behind. Anything but ass.

Hosting seems to have taken over recently for having people to your home at Christmas.

Curated is a perfectly good word if it is used for organising a museum. If I invite people for lunch I am not curating the menu for them. Gotten is a perfectly good word. It has just rather fallen out of use in this country.

Things that annoy me are somebody "sharing" their children with the father. It makes the children sound like a bag of sweets! Then there's the constant use of "sweet" in items about the Royals. Prince George's "sweet" gift to his mother. The Queen's "sweet" reply to a question. The "sweet" hat the Princess of Wales was wearing. Are these people six years old!

And......what about people walking into shops or cafes and asking to "get" something..not "please may I have", but "can I get".....very rude!
And I won't even start on the misuse of the word "amount" as in " there was a large amount of people"...........🤣 As I said. Ba humbug, must be me!

I feel like saying “of course, please fetch it…” to “can I get…”
Can’t stand “he wrote m3 to thank me” etc. “she dove into the water”
As for confusing fewer and less, ‘nuf said!
I’m not that keen on using the plural for collective nouns, eg. The football team were victorious.
Bah humbug indeed.

The one that really rocks my socks off is
WE are pregnant No WE are not you certainly played a part but YOU are not pregnant sir

The really weird one is the term six- seven that youngsters use which seems to have a variety of meanings or none at all : e.g your clothes are six- seven( cool, stylish fashionable). Sometimes it is just said for no reason.My children were amazed I had heard of it and were saying it had been banned in some schools because children were constantly using it. An interesting way in which language is developing. The background concerns an American baseball player who said he was 6 foot 7. I can’t see the relevance but I am obviously missing something.

I forgot to say it is often accompanied by a hand gesture of upturned palms moving up and down as if weighing something. Strange!

Elevate/“You guys” 🙄