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Post by aitch on Aug 8, 2024 8:02:44 GMT
The joys of random camera gifts! I've been gifted a boxful recently, some utter junk (the piece of leatherette from a camera not actually in the box being the junkiest), but an interesting Canon(?) compact, and an unexpectedly nice 620 Kodak in there too. I've also been given my mother-out-law's cameras, some dodgy digitals in there, but also the Tamron 90mm I've coveted for 20+ years. It's a lottery, but a fun one. May I be permitted to scream loudly please? Gifted is an abominable americanism, the word is “given”. Rant over. Enjoy your new acquisitions You can be given something without it being a gift ('a viral infection' or 'a slap in the mouth', for instance), so 'gift' as a verb meaning 'given as a gift' is not as abominable as it could be. YMMV. |
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Post by gray1720 on Aug 8, 2024 8:11:43 GMT
The joys of random camera gifts! I've been gifted a boxful recently, some utter junk (the piece of leatherette from a camera not actually in the box being the junkiest), but an interesting Canon(?) compact, and an unexpectedly nice 620 Kodak in there too. I've also been given my mother-out-law's cameras, some dodgy digitals in there, but also the Tamron 90mm I've coveted for 20+ years. It's a lottery, but a fun one. May I be permitted to scream loudly please? Gifted is an abominable americanism, the word is “given”. Rant over. Enjoy your new acquisitions Earliest quotation in the OED, in the sense of to bestow as a gift, 1619. It's also good Scottish. Like trash, see Willie Shakes using it in The Tempest, it's just crossed back again. Just saying. |
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Post by spinno on Aug 8, 2024 10:49:04 GMT
May I be permitted to scream loudly please? Gifted is an abominable americanism, the word is “given”. Rant over. Enjoy your new acquisitions Earliest quotation in the OED, in the sense of to bestow as a gift, 1619. It's also good Scottish. Like trash, see Willie Shakes using it in The Tempest, it's just crossed back again. Just saying. It's a given...that it appears in Shakespeare... |
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Post by El Sid on Aug 8, 2024 11:54:55 GMT
Earliest quotation in the OED, in the sense of to bestow as a gift, 1619. It's also good Scottish. Like trash, see Willie Shakes using it in The Tempest, it's just crossed back again. Just saying. It's a given...that it appears in Shakespeare... Well old Willie did have a gift...  |
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Post by John Farrell on Aug 8, 2024 19:04:14 GMT
In Norwegian, "gift" means married...
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Post by geoffr on Aug 8, 2024 19:47:44 GMT
In Norwegian, "gift" means married... In German gift means poison |
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Post by Ivor E Tower on Aug 28, 2024 20:18:03 GMT
No-one's ever gifted me any photographic gear in my life so far, nor have they poisoned me though......
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Post by spinno on Aug 28, 2024 20:46:15 GMT
No-one's ever gifted me any photographic gear in my life so far, nor have they poisoned me though...... one out of two isn't bad... |
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Post by John Farrell on Aug 28, 2024 20:52:29 GMT
Years ago, a neighbour gave me a Canon AT-1 and a Canon F1 - he had gone digital. Unfortunately, someone had managed to put a finger through the F1's shutter.
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