Mumsnet Logo
My feed
Premium
Please
or
to access all these features

AIBU?

To hate when people use "text" instead of "texted"?

141 replies

WhitePhantom · 23/06/2015 23:19

It just really bugs me.

"I text my friend yesterday" - no, you TEXTED your friend yesterday!

That's all. Rant over.

OP posts:
Report

riverboat1 · 23/06/2015 23:21

Maybe they feel it is an irregular verb along the same lines as 'put' and 'set'?

Report

EatShitDerek · 23/06/2015 23:21

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

WorraLiberty · 23/06/2015 23:22

You're right but for some reason 'texted' just sounds so wrong.

I think it should be changed to 'text' just so I'm less conflicted Grin

Report

CocktailQueen · 23/06/2015 23:22

I hate it too. Texted is a regular verb.

Report

BreconBeBuggered · 23/06/2015 23:23

YANBU at all, but I see you've had the text past participle apologists in already.

Report

eggyface · 23/06/2015 23:25

Text sounds pleasantly Jacobs to me.

Report

eggyface · 23/06/2015 23:26

Jacobean! Jacobs? Thank you phone.

Report

MrsTerryPratchett · 23/06/2015 23:26

Texted is a regular verb. I agree but why? There is no reason that a 'new' word should be a regular verb. Surely the English language is one that changes through usage and if the yoof are saying text rather than texted, and they are the ones that use the word the most, the correct usage is text.

Report

Ankleswingers · 23/06/2015 23:27

I have never and would never say texted. Agree it sounds silly and IMO too much of a mouthful. Agree you are right OP but doesn't mean it sounds right.

Report

eggyface · 23/06/2015 23:27

Jacobean! Thank you phone.

Report

BreconBeBuggered · 23/06/2015 23:27

There, eggy, you see? We can't rely on phones to dictate the English language to us.
Texted.

Report

eggyface · 23/06/2015 23:28

And thank you again for putting my comment up twice. Sigh.

Report

gamerchick · 23/06/2015 23:28

Texted is a stupid word, looks wrong and sounds wrong.

Report

eggyface · 23/06/2015 23:31

Grin
Report

elephantoverthehill · 23/06/2015 23:33

Try pedants corner, but in my opinion 'text' is a noun not a verb. I'm sure the OED will enlighten us in the not to distant future. If it hasn't already.

Report

SeenSheen · 23/06/2015 23:34

Yanbu, drives me mad. I think it comes from America where they shorten other verbs too - but just sounds ignorant over here.

Report

MistressMerryWeather · 23/06/2015 23:34

I'm far too lazy to say texted. Even typed out it looks wrong.

Get down with the hip kids OP, right on.

Report

venusandmars · 23/06/2015 23:36

I don't even think TEXT is a verb - it is a noun:

I sent a text

Send me a text

Don't try to make it into a verb or you get the problem of how to decline a new verb...

Report

EatShitDerek · 23/06/2015 23:36

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

badtime · 23/06/2015 23:36

Texted does not sound silly. It sounds correct.

When people say 'I text him', that sounds silly. Also, it leads people to refer to texts as 'texes'. Seriously, I know people who do this.

Report

NomiMalone · 23/06/2015 23:37

Texted is what people on Jeremy Kyle say.

I'll stick with text thanks.

Report

EatShitDerek · 23/06/2015 23:37

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

AgentProvocateur · 23/06/2015 23:37

While we're on the subject, I'm fed up with people using "bias" as an adjective - eg, "I may be bias, but my baby is gorgeous." It's just wrong Wink

Report

BreconBeBuggered · 23/06/2015 23:38

I think that turning a noun into a verb is concession enough, frankly, without making the fucker irregular to boot.
Still texted.

Report

WanderWomble · 23/06/2015 23:41

I loathe the word texted and used text (when I use it at all.)

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

Sign up to continue reading

Mumsnet's better when you're logged in. You can customise your experience and access way more features like messaging, watch and hide threads, voting and much more.

Continue with Facebook Continue with Google Continue with Apple
Already signed up?