I have a linguistics background and I’m generally onside with language change, but this one bugs me no end. I don’t know why.
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If I was gifted by a Germanic then I’d have been poisoned.
(These are the jokes, kids)
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Apologies. On Saturday, I hosted my mom’s side of the family for a holiday gathering and they gaft me this respiratory infection.
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lol. I can live with that version.
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Have they banned “impacted” ?
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Impact last year and impactful in 2018.
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That one bugs me too. And “moreso”; it’s two words, dammit!
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Moreso sounds like the name of a cocktail. A nice, beachy cocktail. With an umbrella. Two morésos, please!
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Thank you!
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Perhaps because it’s weakening our verbs, and thus our language.
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Maybe? One of things I’ve always been fascinated with about English is the plasticity, so I don’t know why this rubs me the wrong way. It seems faddish and affected.
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When did gift erroneously become a verb?
When did ‘bitten’ and ‘petted’ become endangered species?
Some errors make more sense than proper usage, or are at least what I’d consider reasonable. Avoiding beginning and ending sentences w/prepositional phrases, ferinstance, can sometimes be really difficult.
Some errors sound phony, poseur-y, like the T-dropping Yankistanis. The first time I heard some silly Detroit reporter say, “ki**en” instead of “kitten,” I got V irritated and wondered if she’d do anything else involving aping a cockney.
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I was joking about…
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But I don’t think “given” and “gifted” mean the same thing in that usage. “I was given a pen” doesn’t necessarily mean that ownership of the pen was transferred to you. It could just mean someone handed you a pen to use. “I was gifted a pen” means that ownership of that pen transferred to you. The pen was a gift.
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Sooo, how goes that Fonts page? 
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I too have been gaffed by a respiratory infection (actually it’s just a cold, but I could do without it).
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Using “ask” instead of “question” (“what is your ask”) and “learnings” vs “lessons” (“these are my learnings”) have the same result for me.
When some people at my workplace got RIFed, the required vocabulary that was used to communicate firings was that people were “impacted”.
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True; I hadn’t actually thought of it that way! Although in certain contexts, the meaning is obvious; "I was given pearl earrings for my birthday.
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I have never heard of “learnings”. That is an abomination.
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