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When did the word 'Gift' become a verb?

The same with 'Guest', everyone's suddenly gifting and guesting everywhere. It's doing my head in 🤣

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amethyst1 · 36-40, F

The term 're-gifting' seems to have been in the vernacular for quite a while...at least 10 years I think, but gifting, not so long. Guesting, I'm not sure.

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@amethyst1 Re gifting sounds okay, gifting on it's own or 'to gift' are nauseating and need to go away quickly.

bijouxbroussard · F

Possibly an Americanism; I’ve heard it before. ”Guest” as a verb, I’m not as familiar with.
But the word that actually makes me angry is ”conversate”, popular among some kids. What a useless abbreviation !
"Converse” isn’t short enough ? 🙄

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BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@bijouxbroussard A zee instead of a zed 🤣

bijouxbroussard · F

@JimboSaturn I’ve not yet heard "socialized” in that context. But I’ve been retired. It used to amuse me when “corporate-speak” would recycle words and change their meanings.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@bijouxbroussard Short enough... shorter, even!

DDonde · 31-35, M

I’ve never heard guesting, but I hear gifting a lot.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/gift-as-a-verb

Apparently it is grammatically ok, but just not used much. It's recent popularity makes its seem incorrect.

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@JimboSaturn It's making me wish Christmas was over 🤣

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@BlobbyMcBlobface I would like for you to be gifted the elimination of the word gifted.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

I think similarly with ignoring the difference between nouns and verbs: the commute, the weekly shop, and similar.

Nor do I like that silly pretension of historians and novellists to ignore all tenses but the Present.

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@ArishMell It often gets called 'language evolvement', when in fact it's lazy teaching and failure to correct infantile grammar.

exexec · 70-79, C

I can't make myself use it as a verb.

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@exexec Me neither, unless I'm calling someone 'gifted' which means something entirely different. It's a horrendous abomination which has crept into our everyday language out of nowhere.

Nunki · 31-35, F

500 years ago

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

@Nunki Not in the same context.

Nunki · 31-35, F

Lol you’ve been around for a century so I’ll take your word for it @BlobbyMcBlobface

chubbysteve99 · 56-60, M

gift has always been a verb as in, To gift the artwork to the museum.

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