To wonder why 'to text' has no past tense?

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I say "texted".

.....ah, but invite is a much better word. Sort of, punchier?

Hi EvieAnne...slightly horrified actually that I have accepted 'to text' as a verb at some impure, subconscious level...

And how about 'I was sat'

Eh? eh?

Invite is a verb. It is an action word and that is why it may be punchier. But one does not send or receive an invite - one invites.

Sort of, punchier?

you're probably right Bowler because that's just what it makes me want to do!

Ok so just me that just says 'text' then?

And how about 'I was sat'

Well that's abhorrent too, of course, but I sort of have a soft spot for that because Hylda Baker (the Miranda of the 60s) always used to say 'he were sat sitting there...' in a totally comical way

Texted.
Invitation.

And might I offer up the other punch-worthy trend of using "draw" to mean "drawer".

I also absolutely hate it when the pupils at school write, 'I was sitting there' in their stories. Sitting where, fgs?

But language should be fluid. Adaptable.

You don't just want to be stuck in the same old rut do you?

Otherwise we'd still be saying 'ye olde shoppe, young sire' (that is pronounced oldie and shoppie, by the way)

Yes, if rigid languages are your thing take up Latin or ancient Greek.

Language should be fluid, yes - but blatant inaccuracy doesn't fluidity make. It just makes people look daft.

There's fluid and there is plain annoying.

Yes, if rigid languages are your thing take up Latin or ancient Greek.

They are and I did!

But there is a subtle difference between language between language being adapted and evolving, and its being vandalised!

Ugh. TextED obviously.

Pet hate of mine, right up there with "should of, would of, could of".

Bowlersarm apparently it was spelled "ye" but pronounced "the", the y being an obsolete shortand way of writing the phomene "th".

So The Oldeee Shoppeee.

Normal rules, it's texted.

er its texted

Oh shit! One too many 'between languages' in there. There's vandalism!

Saying(eg) 'I text her last night', as many people do, just sounds weird as if there is something missing.

As more and more people use those words, the 'daft' will become the majority.

It's texted.

It does make my teeth itch though, as does any noun appropriated as a verb. (See 'gifting', 'scrapbooking', etc).

The 'stationary bits' thread is also giving me rage.

i think we should have a vote whereby MN can edit misspelled thread titles

Yes the 'y' is an Anglo-Saxon letter called thorn, I think. It makes the soft 'th' sound: this rather than think.

Stationery is so easy to remember too - E = envelope. Sorted.

Just because the majority do something, doesn't make it right.