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

[alicetrefusis]

[doobeedee]

Not rude at all Jamie. Was just wondering why you were right and she was wrong without giving a reason.

[LilacPeony]

Maybe we could make the verb "To tex" and the past tense. "I texed."

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

I find it so odd when people say 'Why do you even care' with reference to grammar and spelling. Why would you NOT care. And if you truly don't care (and it's obvious that you don't but your continued use of the wrong spelling/grammar) then why do you bother to spell anything correctly. Why not just write a string of gobbledegook?

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

but = by

Type. Different to spelling error before I get jumped on!

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

Oh Christ on a bendy bus. TYPO!!!!

[valiumredhead]

I'd quit while you're ahead

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

[squoosh]

Has anyone read Kingsley Amis' The King's English? Now he was the pedant to end all pedants. Apparently he'd become so enraged if one of his children made a grammatical faux pas that he'd ignore them for a full day.

[valiumredhead]

Squoosh my dad is like that, my sister and I took to rolling our eyes and telling him to gently fuck off

[watchingout]

Along the same lines ie said by the same annoying colleague I will forwards you the email"

[watchingout]

Also "I have forwards the email to you"

[IloveJudgeJudy]

Jamie Ford themselves call it a Kay Ay to stop people saying car/Ka and getting all confused.

[Alliwantisaroomsomewhere]

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

I love RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie. ALOT!!

[valiumredhead]

Forwards the email? Who on earth says that??

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Why, thank you. I love you too. :)

[NotintheMiddle]

Euphemia - we have "jamp" all the time here too. I have decided it is not incorrect but is a regional variation

[FoodieToo]

Those of you saying 'texted' is correct seem to be assuming that the only way to make a word past tense is to add ' ed'.
This is not the case.

And because 'text' is a noun adapted by common usage to become a verb then it is hard to see how rules apply.

I believe ' I texted' sounds wrong. I actually e mailed my old English lecturer from college who told me that ' I text' is probably correct.

Well neither is correct really .' I sent a text' is correct.

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

ILove

See? That's because Fords (sic) are from Essex too....

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

You don't hear it that much over here but "aks" instead of "ask" (a peculiarly North American thing I think) makes me stabby too.

I axed him if he was my baby daddy.

Double ugh.

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

But I can and do accept that languages, especially English, are fluid and need to change.

"Steven Pinker estimates that up to a fifth of English verbs are derived from nouns--including such ancient verbs as rain, snow, and thunder along with more recent converts like oil, pressure, referee, bottle, debut, audition, highlight, diagnose, critique, email, and mastermind. "In fact," Pinker reminds us, "easy conversion of nouns to verbs has been part of English grammar for centuries; it is one of the processes that make English English."

Texted is still right though. Another new-ish verb, fax --> faxed. I rest my case.

[GibberTheMonkey]

Foodie
I disagree.
I think 'I texted your last night' sounds better than 'I text you last night'. Nothing to do with assuming it's the only way to do it.

[IloveJudgeJudy]

But fax does not end in a "t" already (or the sound of --ed). So, sorry, you can't rest your case .

[IloveJudgeJudy]

See, I disagree with Gibber that texted sounds better. Text sounds better to 100% in this household.

[FairPhyllis]

foodie An '-ed' suffix is the regular way of forming the past in English though. When new verbs are coined in a language with a regular past they almost always (I'm saying 'almost' but actually I can't think of any counterexamples off the top of my head) use whatever is the regular past formation process for the language.

It would be weird if by some sort of speaker consensus 'text' acquired an irregular past. 'I toxt last night' perhaps.

See 'I googled' 'I hoovered' etc.

It's not really a case of 'languages need to change'. They just do.

[ShowOfHands]

Textis isn't a Norfolk thing. Never even heard it before (I live in Norfolk and I don't watch JK). It's filmed in Manchester according to google.