Is it texted? That just looks and sounds wrong.
"I will send him a text"
"I have sent him a text"
"I will text him"
"I have text him"
"I have texted him"
It's just a horrible, horrible word. Why was it made in to a verb?
2006-08-29 03:00:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Unless there is some other "irregular" possibility (created by exchanging the vowel "e" for some other vowel) it would be texted. But I agree, that's a horrible sounding word and "text" should never have been made a verb. "Re-districting" is one that makes me cringe. It's supposed to mean dividing a geopolitical area into different subsections than it already is.
2006-08-29 05:35:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary
(available through some libraries), there has been a verb "text" since
the 1500s, with a past tense of "texted" or "tex'd." The current
meaning of "to send a text message" was accepted by the OED in its
draft additions of June 2004, and include the example of "texted."
2006-08-29 03:06:43 · answer #2 · answered by Azrael 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Text.
2006-08-29 03:06:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
text
2006-08-29 03:05:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both are correct for your first example.
For the last example, the middle word is not right.
"Texted" is a verb. Although it may look and sometimes sound funny, it is grammatically correct.
2006-08-29 03:11:58 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ £.O.V.€. ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
texted
2006-08-29 14:44:15 · answer #6 · answered by 123456 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New verbs are typical into the language as conventional verbs, so the previous demanding might desire to be "texted". curiously the yankee heritage Dictionary has already typical "textual content textile" as a verb, no person else seems to have.
2016-11-06 00:43:29 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think Texted
2006-08-29 03:08:41 · answer #8 · answered by Secret 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, stupid word for a verb.
I always used texted.
(even the spell checker tells me its not a word!)
2006-08-29 03:05:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like it either, so how about "tm'd'...
"I just tm'd him about the past tense of "text". from my tenth tent, where it was getting kind of tense."
(I don't like to "tm" from any of the other 9 tents)
2006-08-29 04:25:44 · answer #10 · answered by Da Whispering Genius 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋