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)

OP, I'm totally with you on this one! It drives me mad. I'm surprised how many disagree though.

YABU. Why are some people determined to impose rules on the English language?.... as though it were linguistically pure, regular and unchanging when it manifestly isn't!

Those of you complaining about the use of "text" as a past participle would likely have complained 10 years ago that "text" was being used as a verb!... and 15 years ago complained that "sending a text" was an unacceptable abbreviation that should be "sending a text message"

Language evolves - get over it!
Language (English in particular) is not uniformly regular - get over it!

lore I've no idea what that means
I'm a bit of a grammar nazi (I still defend no sentences ending with a preposition etc.) but I have no problem with text as an irregular past tense. Texted just sounds clumsy. I like my English musical.

Why are some people determined to impose rules on the English language?

Because when it comes to disputes over correct/preferred usage, rules are quite helpful.

Whilst texted is logically it sounds rubbish, I text sounds better.

I think we will have to agree to disagree. It sounds utterly grim and winceworthy. I'm ny actually a total grammar purist but people's insistence on this one baffes me, it sounds totally ridiculous.

I'm not usually a prescriptivist about this stuff but I'm with you too, OP. "Texted" feels entirely natural to me, so it seems clunky and pointlessly awkward to leave off the -ed.

I have never, ever, ever, heard anyone say 'texted'.
Sounds horrible.

Texted sounds like a made up word to me.

I use messaged instead. Hardly anyone actually texts these days and you bypass this very dilemma!

Texted sounds like a made up word to me.

Well, yes. As is 'text' as a verb. That's kind of the point - 20 years ago we didn't need words for this activity; now we do and usage hasn't settled.

Hardly anyone texts? What makes you think that?

texted pisses me off sorry op

Well yes, I also use 'messaged' now I think of it. Never really text anyone anymore either!

The new grammar du jour that I can't quite get my head around is "that needs looked at" "she needs picked up". Eh? They're not even sentences... where did the words go?

And it's texted YANBU. I've never heard anyone in RL use "text" in that context. I guess it's the company you keep.

Bat I know,why drop 'to be?' sounds dreadful to my ear and it's popping up all other the place.

** over

Bloody phone

Judas - I had the same idea about adding an apostrophe to the end of "text" to make it more palatable. Maybe there were once some itchy-teethed people who couldn't bear "o'clock" instead of "of the clock"

We got over it.

I'm fairly puritanical as regards punctuation, grammar and spelling but don't mind a bit of flexibility.

Seemingly wilful mistakes based on current trends are annoying ("alot") and I can't be doing with "textes" because it sounds a bit testicular when said out loud.

"I've got his textes on my phone."

Have you? Have you really? Poor sod.

A photo or are they gently balanced textes?

Yeah it IS 'I texted' you - not 'I text you.' If it is a past tense, it's TEXTED.

And 'I got your texties,' makes me want to rip my hair out.

It's right up there with 'could of' instead of 'could have' and 'loose' instead of 'lose.'

And when people makes already plural words, more plural, it sets my teeth on edge. One woman I used to know said she had 'sorted out the kids breakfasts-iz.'

Pluralising an already plural word. WTF?!

The dreadful thing is that these people don't even realise they are doing anything wrong.

YANBU

It looks so wrong to me.

But it's a new verb so I can see why people disagree. I suppose they might say it's like read, same in present and past tense.

(Still looks and sound wrong to me though!)

I prefer text to what an acquaintance says which is 'SMS' as in "I SMSed him."

They probably refer to the Internet ad the World Wide Web 😄

But "texted" is wrong too. It's "text messaged", which some people's shortern to text, some shortern to texted. Either way is slang so can't really be right or wrong surely?

Its people writing it how it sounds when spoken like could've/ could of.

I would say texted as one syllable

I usually hate prescriptive grammar but this one does tend to irritate me a bit.