[LouieFisk]

“Absolutely. Then they could become adults without the false gerund form “adulting”.”
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And “Parenting” is no better. The real McCoy is “raising kids”.

[Olog-hai]

One of those false gerunds prevalent in English-speaking Europe is “gifting”. Yeah; that’s just giving. If I got a watch as a gift (remember those?), nobody gifted it to me; they gave it to me.