So I am sitting on a plane the other day and I hear someone in conversation with a friend.
“Girl, I texted him and he didn’t even text me back”, she said.
As she spoke my hair stood on end. Did she really mean that? Of course not, I thought. I dismissed it.
A few days later a popular show came on TV and the character said that he “texted” someone. Again, I am thinking – “how did this get though network censors”?
Again, in conversation someone said, “I texted you that number the other day”. By this time I was out done. I knew that I had taught English before and from everything that I had learned as a teacher ‘texted’ was not a word. Of course I did the requisite research on-line and there in the Urban Dictionary the word ‘texted’ what right in front of me. Then again this was the Urban Dictionary so did that really make it a reliable source?
It’s just in all that had learned over the years – I was really over hearing the words ‘texted’ or ‘texting’. But what could I do? Truthfully, nothing! I am a purist on most things so in my estimation the proper thing would have been to say, “ I sent you a text message” or “I was sending a text message to you”. Then again who really does things the proper way?
So I will have to suck it up and hear people conjugate words in all types of weird ways. I guess at the end of the day we just make it up as we go along – that is the American way!
4 comments:
I'm somewhat suprised that "text" is not officially a verb. I'm pretty sure it has been used like you described for some time now.
As long as they aren't pronouncing it "text-did", I'm okay!
Okay in your day to day life, when you are just kickin' it with your friends, you always talk absolutley proper?
Everyone you mentioned was talking to a friend or supposed friend. Most people don't talk properly, or like they teach English, on a day to day bases.
I had this English teacher who in cless talked, without slang and infact talked with a british dialect, becasue he went to school at Oxford, and got his Master there I believe. However when he was on the football field coaching, the proper dialect was out the door, and the black boy form Michigan came out.
Brotha, if you think text-ed gets under your skin, spend a day in Memphis, lol you will get a whole new understanding of words-period!
yea, when I type the words into firefox or Word documents it comes up error. Hmmm... I'll try it out and see if i can correct my diction just a bit. I'm all for self improvement! how about you correct your friends one by one? this will make the Americanized version of English more rigid! lmao While you're at it... bitchassness isn't a word either!
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