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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iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 months agoIt’s weird, but also more specific. You can give someone a haircut, give someone guff, give someone herpes, but you wouldn’t say “gifted” in those contexts.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 5 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.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 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!
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 5 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.
UmeU@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My ex wife gifted me some herpes.