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, 2 replies)

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)