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

[WhitePhantom]

It just really bugs me.

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

That's all. Rant over.

I dont like texted and refuse to say it. I dont really like saying 'I text soandso earlier' either. ( I do say text though sometimes I will admit.) I try and change it to 'I sent soandso a message earlier' but then I sometimes say 'messaged' aswell.. oh dear.

You'll have to say texted when I'm in charge and start drafting my laws. My laws will also ban people from saying 'I'm loving' just to warn you in advance!

Yesterday I texted joe - Sounds wrong

Yesterday I text joe. - Sounds wrong

Yesterday I sent a text to joe. - Sounds right

I agree, so have always purposely said "I sent === a text earlier" to avoid brain fart

I always say text, texted sounds wrong.
But I usually say messaged because no one really texts anymore, everyone uses Whatsapp or some form of IM, or so I'm told by the 'youth'.
When I do say messaged it comes out sounding like 'messinged.' Duno if its down to my accent, fast talking or just general idiocy though. Hope that didn't make you faint with rage OP

Wait, is 'messaged' even a word or correct in this context of the sentence? As in 'I messaged him yesterday day' it isn't is it? Oh god I'm so confused!

Sent you a text sounds much better than texted in my opinion.

Texted sounds vulgar to me, which is why I prefer to use text and wish that more others would too.

Messaged is also using a noun as a verb. You're doing the same thing with the word message as you're doing with text - see also medalled, phoned, etc. Of course it should be texted. There's no argument!

Yanbu op! Really surprised at some of the responses here. This always really grates on me.

Oh I wonder whether this will become another class indicator. If you say text then what do you call the long seat in the reception room of the house in which you relax, and do you say what or pardon? I say texted because I think that it is what my English teacher would have wanted. I drove her crazy enough with my inability to grasp the irregular verbs which existed 20 years ago. Not cool enough to have messaged people but I would say that I emailed you.

I agree with you OP. I use 'texted' and can't stand 'text' as the past tense. Texted sounds perfectly correct to me. To me it's like 'I posted' the letters, or 'I toasted' the bread, or 'I roasted' the turkey. I sometimes think people use 'text' because they are hearing 'texed' in their heads.

Glad I am not the only one who feels this way.

Texted sounds weird. I sent a text sounds much better.

Why would anyone say text??? Never heard it anywhere. Texted or sent a text are both fine. Why would you decide not to put text into the past tense? I find this very strange. YANBU!

I say "sent a text", I think texted sounds like hurted and refuse to use it.

I hate 'texted', I believe 'I sent a text to you' has been contracted to 'I text you'.

Texted just sounds wrong. I see zero reason why anyone has to treat it like a regular verb if they don't want to. There is no correct and incorrect and the OED will record what is in use... It's not an instruction manual. If enough people say text that will become the "correct" past tense.

I just looked it up in the dictionary. The definition for it's use as a verb is there but there is no past participle recorded unlike for other verbs. I don't really know why that would be but it certainly makes it difficult for anyone to claim that they definitely are right and everyone else is wrong.

Texted sounds silly.

TO text. Texted.

I texted my friend.

I will text my friend.

YANBU!

Texted sounds silly imo.
"I sent x a text" solves the argument.

YANBU, OP.

'Texted' is a perfectly cromulent word.

Texted sounds vulgar to me, which is why I prefer to use text and wish that more others would too.

Ha! Whereas to my ears, 'text' in that context sounds silly and uneducated.

I suspect there are no winners here...

Not sure which is right and I think I might use both. But I HATE that it seems every time someone tries to say 'texted' what comes out of their mouth is 'texstsis'. SEETHE.

I don't say text or texted, I say texed. So I'm on the fence on this one!

My brother's ex used to say tex. I'll tex you. I tex him about it. Nails on a chalk board for me!