To wish people wouldn't write 'text' when they mean 'texted'?

[SadAboutTheBoy]

Sorry, but it makes my teeth itch.

My sister text me to say she was late

I text the other mum to tell her..

He text me to tell me it was over..

It's texted FFS!

(And it's packed lunch, not 'pack' lunch BTW)

That was supposed to have on the end in case anyone thought I was being serious.

Surely then it should be 'He taxt'?

Texted ffs

Have a word with yourself

How difficult can it be to add two letters in order to create the past tense?

TextED

Absolutely agree with you. Text is a relatively new verb in that context so it makes perfect sense to make it into past tense with -ed at the end like with others like "to microwave" or "to email", both of which have -ed at the end because it makes sense to have it there to indicate past tense.

I think the people who write "I text..." have significant gaps in their education.

YABU.

I hate the word 'texted' but I wouldn't get as worked up over it as you do.

There can be no other rational explanation!

"Texted", definitely. I don't like how "text" reads, I find it jarring because of the tense confusion.

I also don't get why people write "fuck sake" when they mean "fuck's sake".

I hate when people write if instead of have

Of not if

Brought instead of bought gets my goat though.

I went to the shops and brought a pair of shoes with a gift voucher. No you didn't, luv, you bought a paid of shoes.

Grammar police here...OP, you sound just like me.
Heard a debate on the radio about the evolution of language and how we would just have to accept that it is shifting again. If language didn't evolve we would all still be neolithic grunters or 17th century 'twas and 'twixters..... made me kinda want to cry, as i know i speak well, but my teenage children don't!! 😣😣

You do realise dictionaries are reactive?!?!

When a word falls into common usage it appears in the dictionary. Just because it appears in the dictionary as one thing absolutely does not mean it will stay as that one thing. When the language changes the dictionary will also change.

YABU

Whilst texted is logically it sounds rubbish, I text sounds better. Assuming people still text (and that is a big assumption) i predict text as a past tense verb will be in the dictionary within the next 10 years

I use " he communicated with me briefly and pithily on his hand held electronic device", and I can't for the life of me think any anyone would want to truncate it.
Sheer bone idle Laziness I imagine.

The past tense of "text" has evolved to be an irregular verb... that's how language works!

I have only just accepted that text can be used as a verb.

Also every time I read a post that goes 'I am sat here crying' in my head I correct it to 'I am sitting here crying'

YABU to a) give sufficient shits about it to start a thread in aibu and b) to be oblivious to how clumsy and unwieldy a word 'texted' is.

I've got a PhD in English and the grammar purists hack me off no end. Language is fluid, beautiful and ever changing. Shakespeare didn't give a fudge about 'the rules' and our language is all the more wonderful for that.

It would be 'texted' as the correct past tense - if you used 'message' instead of 'text', you wouldn't say:

"He message me"

but would say:

"He messaged me"

Same rules apply.

However, I too prefer, 'sent a text message', because I'm not fussed about shortening words or phrases. I also always use correct punctuation in text messages - commas, speech marks, colons, semi-colons, ellipsis - the works!

YANBU to be annoyed. I fear like other words that "text" will become the accepted version.

I agree OP, it should be texted but I prefer text to what an acquaintance says which is 'SMS' as in "I SMSed him."

Shakespeare didn't give a fudge about 'the rules'

Yes just that. Isn't there some statistic that Shakespeare has the most first known recorded usages of a word or phrase in the dictionary. They don't think he was inventing all of the phrases just recording what he was hearing spoken.

It will only take on influential author to record texted as text and it will be in the dictionary.

Most people would have a devil of a job understanding Medieval English and yet supposedly it's the same language. It's just that it's evolved.

I don't get the language/spelling purists either. I'm also thinking it comes from studying Old English....

I used to know a girl from Huddersfield and every time her daughter misbehaved she declared it was down to "pure tireation" used to drive me nuts!!!