Text or Texted

[Jam The Man]

Question - and this is not a criticism of anyone at all, but i noticed it on a thread earlier.

If you send a text message by phone, is it grammatically correctly to say that you 'texted' them ... or should it be 'text' them.

Is it a tense issue?

Personally I tend to say "Bob texted me yesterday"... rather than "Bob text me yesterday"... the latter just seems wrong to me?


Yes i'm bored...

 

[Hiney]

"Bob sent me a text yesterday"

 

[Jam The Man]

"Bob sent me a text yesterday"

Is perfectly right mate... but some don't say it that way, bless them...

 

[southwickseagull]

I texted Bob yesterday

 

[Frutos]

In that circumstance I'd say "texted"

 

[jordanseagull]

I say 'text me yesterday'...

 

[Albumen]

The past tense should be 'texted' but it's already been cemented in language evolution as 'text'. Blame the illiterate.

 

[Rookie]

text me yesterday
surely a poll is needed though

 

[skipper734]

He sent you a text, and you texted him back. Simples!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

The past tense of the verb text is texted.

 

[Jam The Man]

Debatable...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080304175411AA11Gr5

 

[Jam The Man]

text me yesterday
surely a poll is needed though

Saarrted Perry

 

[thebazillionaire]

Who the F*** is Bob?

 

[stss30]

Definately text-ed

 

[Brovion]

The confusion might come because it's both a verb and a noun, but in the past tense it's "I texted a text", not "I text a text" I would have thought that was f***ing obvious and not even up for debate but there you go. I suppose it's simpler to say (and type) "I text Bob yesterday", and thus the language evolves - even if to me it does make you sound like a foreigner to whom English is your fourth language.

 

[Albumen]

Bob texted me:

"I in Cowfold. lolz"

 

[tedebear]

Right with Brovion on this one.

The lack of language/grammar/spelling skills these days astounds me.

Please send me a text, have you sent a text? I had texted yesterday....

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Texted, as in you have

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

"texted" makes you sound like a wally.

"I texted you yesterday I did, then I runned to your house."

"I text you yesterday" just sounds better.

 

[pasty]

Who the F*** is Bob?

He's a mate of Rita and Sue