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by **The TyGuy** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:50 pm

Herschel wrote:
Doug wrote:[b][color=#800080].. texted me for both of us to 'kidnap' her and take her to Brigid's Cross. ('texted' still gets the ziggly line for misspelling? But it's 2012. I don't get it).....

Because text is a noun that's been co-opted and bastardized in the technical age we live in. There is no difference between tenses for the noun, so text would be proper for whichever tense you use. Of course there's also the common English practice (general rule) of adding "ed" behind a verb to change its tense to further confuse the matter. The only clear way to actually say it is "sent a text (or Instant) message"

A language of exceptions, ain't it grand?

I was trying to tell a friend of mine this exact thing once. I always thought "texted" sounded wrong but then once I got a cellphone I thought maybe I was wrong afterall. Glad to see though that I wasn't.

by **Whysper** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:06 am

Text messaging, and now Twitter have dumbed down our society a bit as we try to express more with fewer key strokes. The correct form would be text messaged, but who wants to waste an extra 6 key strokes.....

by **Doug** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:21 am

Good take on the 'texted' situation. Bastardized is a good way to put it, as are many other words. Funny this came up because on FB yesterday I was bantering with Lisa and another friend of ours on certain grammar problems and misuse of words today; where vs. were vs. we're, they're vs. there vs. their, etc. There's a handful of words that seems to be ever increasingly interchanged. Makes me think I should look into substitute teaching, infiltrate the public school system for the sole purpose of righting this ship and pounding the proper use of these words into those little skulls of mush. I had a cousin post on FB once that he had a "soar" throat. It was so incredibly hard not to comment, something like "so how high did it get? Did you catch a good thermal?", but I kept myself in check. Not sure if it's just me, but it seems so much worse in just the last couple years, epidemic almost.

Cheers!
Doug

'i beet up yor honur studint'

by **SlammaJamma** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:10 am

Ok, its Wednesday. We have a lot of bands left to be signed. Let's get a hint or something. We should have an announcement every week going forward the next couple weeks. So JWG???????

by **The Jam Web Guy** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:22 am

I'll let you know when I get word.

by **jammarx** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:38 am

http://youtu.be/2WNrx2jq184

The Jam Web Guy wrote:I'll let you know when I get word.

by **Whysper** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:42 am

Doug wrote:Good take on the 'texted' situation. Bastardized is a good way to put it, as are many other words. Funny this came up because on FB yesterday I was bantering with Lisa and another friend of ours on certain grammar problems and misuse of words today; where vs. were vs. we're, they're vs. there vs. their, etc. There's a handful of words that seems to be ever increasingly interchanged. Makes me think I should look into substitute teaching, infiltrate the public school system for the sole purpose of righting this ship and pounding the proper use of these words into those little skulls of mush. I had a cousin post on FB once that he had a "soar" throat. It was so incredibly hard not to comment, something like "so how high did it get? Did you catch a good thermal?", but I kept myself in check. Not sure if it's just me, but it seems so much worse in just the last couple years, epidemic almost.

Cheers!
Doug

'i beet up yor honur studint'

this is the danger of relying on spell check. Words that are spelled correctly, but aren't the word you really want to use. They're, their and there has been a problem since day one of the english language. As much as it bothers me, I'm also guilty of grabbing the wrong one from time to time. Another pet peeve of mine is then and than. I usually cuss at that one so long I've finished a post and don't remember what it was about, except(not accept) I remember they used the wrong one.

People carry on a conversation never thinking about which version they're using, because they all sound the same in their mind. We now think of texting as just another conversation and as long as what we type sounds right in our(not are) mind. We let it go as long as it passes spell check. Heaven help us if you have auto-intuitive on, then you get much more entertaining grammatical errors.

by **kato** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:45 am

So it looks like Billy Idol will be back from Europe before the Jam! I really want to see him, lets see if can get him to the Jam this year!

by **petch53** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:50 am

kato wrote:So it looks like Billy Idol will be back from Europe before the Jam! I really want to see him, lets see if can get him to the Jam this year!

I saw him With Stevie last October in a small venue in San Diego..they still have it. I would love to see him again.

by **camino** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:02 am

kato wrote:So it looks like Billy Idol will be back from Europe before the Jam! I really want to see him, lets see if can get him to the Jam this year!