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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I disagree. It’s not even a good technicality. In one’s own mind they will have physically given the elephant to the zoo. They’d merely choose not to consider it as conceptually given away by nitpicking what definitions of words to apply. An outsider with differing and equally correct opinions of the words “give” and “loan” could just as easily argue you have in fact given the elephant away.
gpt
The counter to those "interpretations" of the words would be "if the zoo closed down, who is responsible now for the elephant" the answer is obviously "me" since it's "my elephant". 

If I let someone borrow a movie, I didn't give it away, I loaned it out. It still belongs to me.

You can come up with a few "gotcha" arguments involving semantics, but I don't think the ones you came up with hold much water.