I actually don't think I've ever heard a native English (as a first language) speaker do it the way you recall - using lend when they mean borrow - I wonder if that's just coincidence, or if one way is more common up north and the other down south?
One: you "bring" things toward the speaker, and "take" them elsewhere. So "don't forget to bring your umbrella!" is incorrect.
Two: "like" compares, and "as" joins independent clauses. So "I wish I could communicate like tptacek does" should be "I wish I could communicate as tptacek does." A correct use of like might be "You, like tptacek, comment insightfully." A famous example of a controversial misuse of "like" was the 1970s slogan "Nobody can do it like McDonald's can." It should be "... as McDonald's can." When that came out, grammar aficionados lost their minds.
Of course, it's often said by someone who's with you, and on their way out, so your assertion makes sense and is often correct!
Do any linguistics geeks reading have a word I can google for this phenomenon? That is, a word that means something like "a word or phrase that is bidirectional in one language but part of a unidirectional pair in another"
You can use lent and borrowed in both directions (I lent X to him; he lent X to me -- I borrowed X from him; he borrowed X from me) so the main difference is not in whether the verbs can be used bidirectionally, but in how you indicate the direction.
I suspect Spanish (and maybe Polish) disambiguate in different ways, but disambiguate I'm sure they do!
Those are both unidirectional: lent is always “the (possibly implicit) direct object moves from the subject to the indirect object prefaced with ‘to’” while borrowed is always “the (possibly implicit) direct object moves to the subject from the indirect object prefaced with ‘from’”.
Birectional would be where the subject could be the source or recipient depending on, e.g., the preposition used to relate the other party as the indirect object.
idk if there are regional exceptions, but in general borrow and lend seem more akin to learn and teach, respectively. The have an implicit direction: (from, in the case of borrow; to in the case of lend).
I teached something from you today or I will learn you calculus in extracurricular classes don't work.
In Spanish it is disambiguated in a similar way as you were mentioning (to me, to you)
"Alquilo" translates literally to rent, so not really the same:
- Me alquilas un piso. (you rent me a flat)
- Te alquilo un piso. (I rent you a flat)
I think a better translation to borrow/lend is "prestar/dejar:
- Me prestas/dejas un lápiz. (you lend me a pencil/I borrow a pencil from you)
- Te presto/dejo un lápiz. (I lend you a pencil/You borrow a pencil from me)
Language is interesting!
"I will lend you money" or "I will loan you money."
"I need to borrow money until I get back on my feet."
It is not grammatically correct to say "I will borrow you money."
Throw me down the hole a bale of hay!
It does seem common to say something along the lines of "grab me a book from the library" , even if it's "grammatically incorrect."
It seems much less common to say "borrow me something" but perhaps it's regional!