Text is a noun, not a verb.
Using it as a verb is not an example of the natural evolution of language, it's an example of your ignorance.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:23, 41 replies)

I disagree
Unless you know of an alternative.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:25, closed)

Two for the price of one:
Send a text message.
Send an SMS message.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:27, closed)

Clunky and awkward to say.
I'll stick to texting thanks.
( wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:28, closed)

if only there was
a single word verb you could use instead of having to say "send a text message". If only...
( Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:29, closed)

I often say "message me"
But that leads to misunderstandings...
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:30, closed)

With a happy ending?

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:34, closed)

Cliffhangers, mostly.

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:37, closed)

?
Why would you send a short message service message?
(dchurch bah, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:30, closed)

Because I can't be bothered to talk to the person at the other end, so a short message service message suffices.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:33, closed)

but
you have to admit, it's a bit of a mouthful.

To "text someone" means that an invention has changed language and has made the word "text" a verb as well as a noun.
The invention of the light bulb gave us the word "filament" (sp?).
(dchurch bah, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:40, closed)

do you also hate
' Phone' as a verb? And cycle/bike?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:20, closed)

Not if they're properly apostrophed.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 20:39, closed)

gimme a second to google the wiki grammar article...
;)
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:26, closed)

google edit
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:27, closed)

pfft
Let me just photoshop the picture, there...
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:30, closed)

The general tendency to turn nouns into verbs....
... I find more enraging than I should.

I think it's because it seems lazy - you can perfectly well say any of these things "correctly" at the cost of only a couple of extra words. I agree it's not really rational because it's always happened and always will but...

To impact
To parent

These are not verbs! Stoppit!
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:36, closed)

I was told I'd been diarised last week.
Sounds deeply unhygenic, but I'm assured it meant she'd made an appointment to see me...
( wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:41, closed)

Yes!
I had the same - we will be diarising the group's annual reviews within the next couple of days.

Argh!

What is wrong with scheduling?
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:47, closed)

So long as you remember...
... that we Brits pronounce it Shed-dueling and its the merkins that pronounce it skedueling.
(karnuvap, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 18:48, closed)

Indeed
I am an English teacher and I work in a shool!
(Heggy, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 11:43, closed)

Most nouns can be verbed.
This has been the case for a long time. If you have your way women in Saudi Arabia will be "subjected to the throwing of stones" and racehorses will be "administered drugs", and the list goes on.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:38, closed)

I don't have an opinion one way or the other about the administration of drugs to racehorses.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:40, closed)

That's fortunate
or I'd throw stones at you
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 22:29, closed)

Can verbs be nouned?
That's probably fucking annoying as well.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:55, closed)

Indeed I was negligent in my posting.
I had the intention of suggesting that most nouns could be verbed, but gave little credence to my argument by posting without ample fact checking.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:01, closed)

such as
Going on a walk?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:42, closed)

Thats just plain wrong you ignorant fool.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:53, closed)

Oxford Dictionary Of English. Page 1825.
text - verb [with obj.] send (someone) a text message: if she was going to go she would have texted us.

This brings me no pleasure as I'm on your side , it sounds bloody awful and drives me 'kin mental too.

Sorry.
( TriedItOnceAndDidn'tLikeIt made you lose the game on, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 18:53, closed)

I expect better from the Oxford Dictionary of English.
Was? Since when has the subjunctive form of be been was?

That example should properly be: if she were going to go she would have texted us.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 20:41, closed)

And furthermore...
What's with that ridiculous [with obj.]? What's wrong with [transitive] or even the abbreviation [tr.]? Any properly-educated person knows what transitive means because he will have had it beaten into him at an expensive single-sex school.

Honestly, if the OED has sunk to the point of celebrating ignorance then there is truly no hope.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 2:04, closed)

The subjunctive's dying out, most people only use it in "I wish I were..." these days.
Good fucking riddance, we've got modals to add functions, there's no need for that medieval pisswimpery.
Also, as you probably realise, the purpose of the OED is to describe, not to proscribe.
( Zuowan, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 7:47, closed)

For me it's not about sticking to the rules.
Brought down to the most basic level language is about communicating an idea, concept or message from one to another. In speech (for me at any rate) the flow, and how what you are saying sounds is what is most important after clarity. Texted just does not sound right. Pisswimpery, for example, certainly does not appear in any dictionary I have seen - but I understand it perfectly. I think, when writing the rules should probably be more rigidly adhered to simply to make life easier for the reader.
( TriedItOnceAndDidn'tLikeIt made you lose the game on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:30, closed)

Does that make sense in Dolphin?
You don't stick to rules (you rebel, you!!), but you may wish to revise that final sentence to make my life easier. Otherwise you'll fail to communicate whatever the fuck you mean.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 22:38, closed)

Texed is not a word damnit!

( jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 5:22, closed)

And neither is 'texted'!
Well apart from it featuring in the OED :(
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 22:44, closed)

Please oh please tell me your joking!
Just because people use the damn thing should'nt mean it becomes right?
( jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Tue 5 Apr 2011, 4:22, closed)

100% agree
I say "SMS" or "send a text message".

Hey - I just sent you an SMS. Did you see my text message?
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:18, closed)

Oh for crying out loud
it's very rich of you to accuse others of ignorance in this post. Have you any idea how language got to this point?

Meh, I suppose at a push I can sympathise with things sounding wrong when they're new, but, just, no.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 1:29, closed)

Irrational Hatred.
Is not rational.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 11:34, closed)

hmmmm, ok
just don't get preachy
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 3:09, closed)

Don't you dare use party as a verb in my shop
now hang on while I text my buddy about this
(AshTeamRacing, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 18:43, closed)