• Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Not really, it’s just laziness.

    “He was given 50 bananas as a gift” is the correct way to say it

    The “gifted” bit is just the magical English language and its ability to verbify anything into a verb

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      2 months ago

      Gift has been used as a verb for the entire history of Modern English. Unless you are speaking Middle English, gift is equally correct.

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        2 months ago

        Yes it’s been around for ages, but not colloquially or informally used until about 20 years ago, just about the time where people started typing a lot!

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          2 months ago

          Even if that were true, I fail to see how that would make it incorrect. And I don’t think it is. I’ve heard gift used that way my entire life, which I wish was only twenty years long so far. Perhaps it was regional until more recently.