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[Goldengate8361]

I don’t use it as a verb. 

[insomniac2]

Using non-words like "gifting" makes a person sound stupid.

[insomniac2]

Using non-words like "gifting" emphasizes a person's lack of knowledge.

[denisemb]

If you hear me say "gifting" PLEASE slap me!

[Texasmouse]

I don't say "gifting". Another word I've been hearing lately that's new to me is "spendy".  I don't like either.

[walkingal]

Never.  And it's like nails on a chalkboard when I hear it used.  

[MarieIG]

No.

[this is my nic]

I believe I can say I have never used the word "gifting".  Also, I have never used the word fabrication, the correct term is fabric.   According to the dictionary, a fabrication is  

a lie.  I do not care who uses it instead of fabric, it's still wrong. 

[blueroses47]

Now that you are making me think about it, I realize that I have never used the word "gifting". 

I don't have any strong feelings about "gifting", but sometimes I do hate newer, overused terms that seem to come into popularity all of a sudden.  They often annoy me.  However, saying that, its amazing to me  how fast I will find myself picking them up and using them to death.

One which I use ALL the time, and I annoy myself when I do, is the word "issues" instead of "problems".  This has been around a long time now, but I can remember when it wasn't.  "Do you have an issue with this?"  She has a drug "issue".  On and on.  Like it makes a problem less of a problem and more of a state of some kind.  I don't get it.

When I find myself annoyed by the in-fashion terms, I do try to remember some book I read in college by a semantics guy, who said "language is a living thing", and will evolve constantly.  That helps me to try to accept those changes that I find grating to my ear.

[faeriemoon]

Although it's a real word (even outside of Q World), I don't use it.