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EmmaNick
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Text Or Texted?
She text me to meet for coffee.
She texted me to meet for coffee.
Just curious what you say. I say text..I didn't really think texted was a word, but I hear it a lot
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Posted 3/11/08 8:30 PM  |
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Epeebes
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Re: Text Or Texted?
i say texted a lot
i texted him yeserday.
i text him yesterday.
i think texted sounds better in certain sentences.
but dont listen to my im no english teacher 
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:33 PM |
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Superkat
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Re: Text Or Texted?
I don't use either. I would say "I SENT him a text".
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:34 PM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by Superkat
I don't use either. I would say "I SENT him a text".
yup
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:34 PM |
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zaidam
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Re: Text Or Texted?
I say text - i can say "texed" from time to time, but not
TEXT -TED. That reminds of me axed instead of asked.
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:35 PM |
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hbugal
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by Superkat
I don't use either. I would say "I SENT him a text".
yup
Never thought about it but this is what I would say....
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:35 PM |
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Goldi0218
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by Superkat
I don't use either. I would say "I SENT him a text".
yup
I would agree.
I have to say that it saddens me that techology is presenting us with challenges in language use.
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:36 PM |
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zaidam
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by Superkat
I don't use either. I would say "I SENT him a text".
I take back my respsone! I say I sent her a text, etc. But
text-ed still annoys me!
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:38 PM |
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Texted 
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:40 PM |
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itkocak
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Message edited 11/17/2011 7:10:26 PM.
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| Posted 3/11/08 8:41 PM |
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teenigrrl
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Re: Text Or Texted?
i'm guilty of saying texted, when it's something that occurred in the past. to say " i text him yesterday" sounds weird to me, JMO.
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| Posted 3/11/08 9:12 PM |
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lvdolphins
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by Superkat
I don't use either. I would say "I SENT him a text".
yup
Same Here.
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| Posted 3/11/08 9:18 PM |
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Re: Text Or Texted?
I say texted.
I think of "text" as a verb in that sense, and so like any regular past tense verb, I add "-ed" to the end.
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| Posted 3/11/08 9:22 PM |
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Epeebes
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by hayleyandsteve
I say texted.
I think of "text" as a verb in that sense, and so like any regular past tense verb, I add "-ed" to the end.
thats excatly what i was thinking....just didnt know how to explain it
texted texted texted! LOL 
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| Posted 3/11/08 10:16 PM |
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smdl
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Re: Text Or Texted?
I use both
Sent a text
and
texted (which for me is the past tense of "text" as a verb). So I also use "texting".
New words are created all the time. It's part of a "live" language.
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| Posted 3/11/08 10:44 PM |
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MarathonKnitter
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Re: Text Or Texted?
text-ED... but i don't pronounced the "ed" separately.
i pronounce it "text-D"
i write it "text-ED"
now, i'm second-guessing myself
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| Posted 3/11/08 10:45 PM |
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BaroqueMama
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Re: Text Or Texted?
I am on the "texted" bangwagon, however, it's always pronounced "texed", not "text-ED".
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| Posted 3/11/08 10:49 PM |
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EckoRed81504
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Re: Text Or Texted?
it drives me crazy when people say texted
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| Posted 3/11/08 10:56 PM |
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islandersgirl74
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Re: Text Or Texted?
i say TEXT..not TEXTED
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| Posted 3/11/08 10:57 PM |
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by EckoRed81504
it drives me crazy when people say texted
why?
maybe it's the speech pathologist in me, but if we consider "to text" as a verb, then the present tense would be text and the past tense would be texted (pronounced text-ed)
any regular past tense verbs that ends in an "t" or "d" has that same pronunciation..
like Today I LIFT, yesterday I LIFTED... or Today I KNIT, yesterday I KNITTED.
So, it would be, Today I TEXT, yesterday I TEXTED.
If the word was "tex" rather than "text" then we'd pronounced the past tense as "text"
Sorry to ramble but I teach this nearly every day to my clients!!
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| Posted 3/11/08 11:05 PM |
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Reese32
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by Superkat
I don't use either. I would say "I SENT him a text".
Me, too. I simply cannot use "text" as a verb. Maybe someday, but I'm not ready yet.
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| Posted 3/12/08 12:28 AM |
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klingklang77
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Re: Text Or Texted?
Posted by hayleyandsteve
why?
maybe it's the speech pathologist in me, but if we consider "to text" as a verb, then the present tense would be text and the past tense would be texted (pronounced text-ed)
any regular past tense verbs that ends in an "t" or "d" has that same pronunciation..
like Today I LIFT, yesterday I LIFTED... or Today I KNIT, yesterday I KNITTED.
So, it would be, Today I TEXT, yesterday I TEXTED.
If the word was "tex" rather than "text" then we'd pronounced the past tense as "text"
Sorry to ramble but I teach this nearly every day to my clients!!
I agree. I teach ESL and we teach the /t/ /d/ sound to add and extra syllable. So in that sense text-ed would be correct.
Since text is a new word to the English language b/c of all the technology perhaps we could conclude that it should have the -ed ending b/c new verbs take the -ed endings. Since English is a Germanic language, irregular verb forms is something that comes from the German language when English developed out of German (and many other languages). I could go back and back on this to the Gothic language of early German, but I won't.
But...
knit and fit are the past simple and past participle in American English and fitted and knitted are British English. Another example is got is the past simple and past participle in Br English but in American English it is got and gotten.
More and more Americans use knitted and fitted. Eh it is an argument topic...
So maybe we could say that text started in British English b/c they were texting first.
I say I sent an SMS or I SMSed. I don't really use text.
Someone mentioned about asked vs. axed and that is actually quite an interesting topic b/c in Middle English 'axen' and 'asken' (Note on -en endings: -en endings were used in Middle English and -an endings in Old English. -en endings can still be found in German and -an endings in Gothic German which is a dead language). In Old English the word was both 'scian' and 'csian'.
In fact Chaucer used both axen and asken in 'Canterbury Tales' to mean 'to ask'.
Example:
'I wol aske, if it hir will be/To be my wyf' and 'Men axed hym, what sholde bifalle,'
The first sentence with ask means 'I wanted to ask' and the second 'I asked' (I think, at least in German it would mean that).
Anyway I am going to take the rest from Wikitionary, b/c they explain it best:
"The forms in "x" arose from the forms in "sk" by a linguistic process called metathesis, in which two sounds are reversed. The "x" thus represents /ks/, the flipped version of /sk/. Metathesis is a common linguistic process around the world and does not arise from a defect in speaking. Nevertheless, "ax" has become stigmatized as substandard - a fate that has befallen other words, like "ain't", that were once perfectly acceptable in literate circles."
Link:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ax
I've done lots of study of the German language in particular Gothic and Middle High German and how it compares to the Englaih language now. I'm a linguistics geek and if you have read this far now you are too!
Interesting the way language has changed and is changing.
Message edited 3/12/2008 4:55:04 AM.
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