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.

'Should of' makes me feel stabby.

It seems so obvious to me that the past tense of 'text' is 'texted' by analogy with all regular verbs in English. When nouns become verbs they always follow the regular rules. If you tell a child a made up verb like 'trax' and ask them to fill in the sentence: 'Today I am traxing. Yesterday I ....' they will say 'traxed' because that is how English verbs work. That's why when children are acquiring language they can over generalise the regular past tense and sometimes use formations such as 'goed' or 'runned'.

Me too, Mileend, and also 'suppose to'.

"The issue is that to some uneducated ears, "text" sounds like a form of the past tense, like your examples of faxt (faxed) or boxt (boxed). It's essentially what Olive is saying.

To anyone who understands that the word is text (not tex) and also understands the basic grammar involved, then texted is surely the logical option."

^^ THIS (MardyBra)

Verbing weirds language.

It's definitely 'texted' for me, for all the reasons stated above. I have a doctorate in an Arts subject, and I'm 37, for the survey.

I always use 'texted'. I'm 51.

Texted. 40s. English degree. (For MardyBra.)

All the people I know who use 'texted' are better educated than the few people I know who use 'text'.

Texted. Of course it's texted.

And to add to the "bias" example earlier, I also squeal when I hear that something is a bit "cliché", rather than clichéd.

I agree. If we're going to make it a verb, it should be a regular one.

While we're on irritations - 'should of' etc has got to be the all time No.1.

It makes me want to climb into the Internet to strangle people.

Text is bad.

Should of is worse.

The absolute worst is the estate-agentification of "me" and "you" into "myself" and "yourself". These are reflexive pronouns, indicating when an individidual is performing an action, be it washing, dressing or fucking, on his or herself, rather than on a seperate person.

"Your good self" is a crime against humanity for which I could possibly be persuaded to permit a death penalty.

Jebus, it's texted, anything else is wrong and makes the user look stupid.

Lady DeGrump, I applaud and honour you for using the phrase 'estate agentification'. Which is simply perfect for what you are describing! In a similar vein I hate people using I when they mean me.

LadyDeGrump - I'm a bit late in replying but just wanted to thank your good self for explaining those points so clearly.

blondegirl73 - I agree wholeheartedly but it's unfair to expect everyone to be as clever as you and I!

Doesn't everyone iMessage/what's app/pm these days? I haven't sent a text for ages

Bettercallsaul1, I am shuddering!

YANBU, it's up there with "should of" and "could of".