Talk:Gift/Archives/2018

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Etymology

A section on etymology of this word might be interesting. One oddity is that German has many words for a gift, but it is a false friend in English, as German gift means English poison. Dutch, a language reflecting its long role as a place of trade and traders, gif is English gift, gift is English poison. --Prairieplant (talk) 18:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Further reading section is too long

I removed the flag on the article sounding like a personal essay and updated the flag on the need for more inline citations. The Further reading section needs to be shorter, as those sources should be turned into inline citations for the text of the article, and thus appear in the References list. Now, the references are recent news articles, save for the citation to rules by the US office of Government Ethics. The topic is quite interesting, and worth expanding the article, I think. --Prairieplant (talk) 18:11, 19 September 2018 (UTC)