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Gift has been used as a verb maybe as long as it has been used as a noun. If you read some older British literature it's all over the place.
by ponker 6y ago
Gift has been used as a verb maybe as long as it has been used as a noun. If you read some older British literature it's all over the place.
- gumby 6y agoI didn’t say it might not be well attested, I said its use is odious. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/gifting-is-not-a-verb/383676/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/gi... And anyway its Germanic root now means “poison”.
- umanwizard 6y agoThat article is hundreds of words to say “I subjectively dislike the word ‘gifting’, on aesthetic grounds”. What’s the big deal? All words are, ultimately, made up.