Text vs texted

[Inthehatbox]

I am going to be unreasonable and announce that the past tense of “text” is “texted”!

I agree 100%

There is no such word as texted.

NU at all, I hate to hear people say text when they mean texted or even worse I have a friend who calls them texes. She's an educated woman for heaven's sake, I have no idea how she doesn't know what the correct word is

There is no such word as texted

Eh? Of course there is, what do to think the past tense of the verb to text is?

I would just say "x sent me a text" or "I sent x a text". As opposed to "x texted me" or "I texted x". I'm pretty sure there is no such word as texted.

I hate the word texted it sounds
so weird I deliberately dont use it and only say text.

I'm not sure if we even need to say texts or texting anymore can't we just say messages and messaging?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/texted

I stand corrected! Dictionary says texted is the correct past participle of text! It's one of those words that sounds so weird I've always thought it wasn't a proper word!!

YANBU at all

Present tense

I text
You text
He/She texts
We text
You text
They text

How can the past tense be anything but

I texted
You texted
etc etc

It just can't. Mind you - in a world where 'could of, should of and alot' are almost positively encouraged I suppose nothing should be surprising any more.

Incidentally with that ghastly aberration 'alot' - why do these people never write 'alittle'. I've been wondering that!

My grammar is generally OK
However I very deliberately say 'text' as past tense and texted sounds so clumsy

I’m another who avoids “texted”.

troubleswillbeoutofsight

It so doesn’t sound clumsy compare to “He text me” . That sounds awful!

*compared

Wait, people are DELIBERATELY avoiding the past tense?! Bring back public flogging.

I texted my OH this morning.
I have texted him twice today.
I finished my lunch before I noticed that he had texted me back.
If he had texted me before lunch I would have seen his message sooner.
By 5pm I will have texted him at least four times.

Texted requires precision enunciation with which many people appear to be uncomfortable

(Not that anyone really cares; I just like to over share.)

Past tenses are disappearing all over the place:

"I use to use past tenses but now I don't bother."
"I was so please to see you use the past tense."
"She text me yesterday but it was all in present tense."
"I was suppose to text her but I didn't bother."

UGH.

Or rather many people appear uncomfortable with the precise enunciation required when using the word 'texted'
Or should that be the enunciatory precision required?

When I first heard someone say texted in the past tense it was early days of mobiles and the friend in question was one who thought LOL was lots of love. So I doubted her use of the word......it stuck

Shitted or shat?

I hate them both.

It's one in the eye for those posh educated people who just think they're it isn't it that's why they don't bother with tenses and all that posh shit
Pah! I spit on your past tenses who needs all that rubbish