I would like to see the demise of "gift" as a verb. A present is given, not gifted. "He gifted me this bottle of whisky."

A pretty girl once gifted herself to me I considered it an act of very personal pronoun

Dnarever wrote on May 17^th, 2021 at 8:12pm:

A pretty girl once gifted herself to me I considered it an act of very personal pronoun

A gifted girl gifted herself to me, and when I was done I gifted her to my mate who got slops.

Gordon wrote on May 17^th, 2021 at 8:30pm:

Dnarever wrote on May 17th, 2021 at 8:12pm: A pretty girl once gifted herself to me I considered it an act of very personal pronoun A gifted girl gifted herself to me, and when I was done I gifted her to my mate who got slops.

past participle or irregular verb but I cannot add the usage.

AiA wrote on May 17^th, 2021 at 8:09pm:

I would like to see the demise of "gift" as a verb. A present is given, not gifted. "He gifted me this bottle of whisky."

Transitive verb that has been in use since the mid 16th century...

AiA wrote on May 17^th, 2021 at 8:09pm:

I would like to see the demise of "gift" as a verb. A present is given, not gifted. "He gifted me this bottle of whisky."

While 'to gift a gift of a bottle of whisky to me' is a clumsy tautology, how is it much less awkward than 'to give a gift of a bottle of whisky to me'?

How about: 'to gift a bottle of whisky to me'?

The alternative: 'to give a bottle of whisky to me' excludes part of the point.

You can give all sorts of things, including a gift, a loan, advice, food, drink, book, way,  etc.

Some of these work as verbs - i gift, loan, advise, feed  you - some dont - I drink, way you.



Here's my invitation to reflection and play:

Look, see, watch, observe, perceive, view.

You can see or watch or view a movie but you don't look or observe it. You can look at it, though, which doesnt mean you'll watch it. You can have a look but you don't  have a see. You look at or view pictures but not watch them (unless you are a guard).  But you dont guard movies while you are watching them.  Look at me, what do you see? Don't you see me, what are you looking at. View me when I am talking to you.
Watch out, look out, see out. View out?
Look through, see through - watch through?
Seem, looked, watched, perceived, observed. The suspect was observed leaving... the suspect was seen leaving... the suspect looked (like) leaving?
A seer is not a looker or watcher.  Nor a viewer. You can view or observe but not perceive, just as you can look but not see.  You can observe and may or may not perceive. 
Viewer discression, not watcher discression or seer discression.

Play of words that can be both transitive and intransitive verbs, nouns, adjectives.

Frank wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2021 at 12:34am:

You can give all sorts of things, including a gift, a loan, advice, food, drink, book, way,  etc. Some of these work as verbs - i gift, loan, advise, feed  you - some dont - I drink, way you. Here's my invitation to reflection and play: Look, see, watch, observe, perceive, view. You can see or watch or view a movie but you don't look or observe it. You can look at it, though, which doesnt mean you'll watch it. You can have a look but you don't  have a see. You look at or view pictures but not watch them (unless you are a guard).  But you dont guard movies while you are watching them.  Look at me, what do you see? Don't you see me, what are you looking at. View me when I am talking to you. Watch out, look out, see out. View out? Look through, see through - watch through? Seem, looked, watched, perceived, observed. The suspect was observed leaving... the suspect was seen leaving... the suspect looked (like) leaving? A seer is not a looker or watcher.  Nor a viewer. You can view or observe but not perceive, just as you can look but not see.  You can observe and may or may not perceive.  Viewer discression, not watcher discression or seer discression. Play of words that can be both transitive and intransitive verbs, nouns, adjectives.

Not bad...

Language, of course, morphs over time... like the morphing of invite to also be a noun (a bugbear with 'purists').

Then there's translation... In German, you can't be hungry, you have hunger - 'Ich habe hunger'.

Or Bob Hawke's embarrassing mistranslation from his colloquial Australian English into Chinese such that Hawke's "Well, we're not going to play silly buggers with you on this" was mistranslated into Chinese as "we should not engage in games of happy homosexuals".

Language - the ultimate eternal shapeshifter.