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Both text-ted and text ted seem to pronounce the same for me, the hyphen denotes a slight pause, rather than seemingly a new word, no?
Pronunciation of texted?
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Fixed?
Both text-ted and text ted seem to pronounce the same for me, the hyphen denotes a slight pause, rather than seemingly a new word, no?
'Tex-ted' is obviously the correct way to say it.
'Text' as a past-tense form is a bit lazy - some would call it substandard - but understandable to me if you're speaking quickly, particularly for a verb that hasn't been around long enough to gain 'standard' conjugations.
'Text-ted' is really hard to enunciate in addition to sounding ridiculous - don't know why anyone would say it
'Text' as a past-tense form is a bit lazy - some would call it substandard - but understandable to me if you're speaking quickly, particularly for a verb that hasn't been around long enough to gain 'standard' conjugations.
'Text-ted' is really hard to enunciate in addition to sounding ridiculous - don't know why anyone would say it
Indeed!
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'Texted' just doesn't sound like a proper word to me, I'll always say and write 'messaged' just for the principle of it.
yeah.. i think the correct ones 'texted'.. but i say both without thinking nor caring
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"I just sent you a text"
There, problem solved!
As for the real arguement, text is not a verb, thus texted is just as wrong as saying text as an action. So there
Infact, the term "text" is purely the adjective describing what kind of message you sent, the full statement should be "I sent you a text message", so if you want to shorten it, message would be an appropriate verb to use as in "I messaged him".
Who needs grammar nazi?
There, problem solved!
As for the real arguement, text is not a verb, thus texted is just as wrong as saying text as an action. So there
Infact, the term "text" is purely the adjective describing what kind of message you sent, the full statement should be "I sent you a text message", so if you want to shorten it, message would be an appropriate verb to use as in "I messaged him".
Who needs grammar nazi?
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Who needs grammar nazi?
Would that be "Who needs a grammar nazi?"
or "Who needs grammar nazis?"?
The latter makes more sense so I'll assume you meant that
The word is texted - pronounced "teks ted". Anything else is wrong - anyone who shortens a word as short as texted is lazy. Laziness is a poor excuse for being wrong.
'Tex-ted' is obviously the correct way to say it.
'Text' as a past-tense form is a bit lazy - some would call it substandard - but understandable to me if you're speaking quickly, particularly for a verb that hasn't been around long enough to gain 'standard' conjugations.
'Text-ted' is really hard to enunciate in addition to sounding ridiculous - don't know why anyone would say it
Indeed. Texted has to be the correct past tense for sending a text message. When people use "text" as a past tense, I imagine what their brain is actually processing is "text'd" but when you say the word it ofted just comes out as "text" or "tex'd"
I fax my customer last night.
I drive my car to work yesterday
I call you last week
People wouldn't say any of the above, surely? Using those examples as precedent I can see how text is the correct past tense for text.
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I just say text I know it's wrong but I can't help myself
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Text, there in no such word as texted. As in "You have text me then?"