Text or Texted

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00Most people seem to say 'texted', for the past participle/past tense of 'to text', e.g. 02br
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001. He texted me in the middle of the meeting. 02br
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00But you sometimes hear 'text' as well, e.g. 02br
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002. She text me yesterday to ask me if I wanted to go out for a drink. 02br

0 I'd be a "text" speaker. Maybe because to my ears "texted" almost sounds like a "double past", like "shoppeded" 0-

0 How do you call those text messages? SMS? texts? 02br
00Here we say SMS (Belgium) or "texto" (France) 0-

0 Being a Luddite, I just call them texts. I get confused easily . 0-

0 'To text' should really be an irregular verb ('text, texts, texting, tuxt, tuxten'). 02br
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00I was distressed to learn that 'mobile phone' was 'das Handy' in German. It makes me feel suddenly tired, for some reason. 02br
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0 maybe that's another reason I say "text" for past. it would be like "treat" "tret" (NE English) 0-

0 And how do you call those portable phones 1) in England 2) in the States? 02br
00In Belgium, they're GSM, often shortened as "G" [jé], and in France they're "portable/s" 02br
00When I send a message to my daughter in Belgium, I take "mon portable" and send her "un texto". Then she takes her "G" and answers by "SMS" 02br
00Crazy, ain't it? 0-

0 I'm still struggling with "blue tooth". Why any one should want blue teeth is beyond me! [:^)] 0-

0 It's a pretty name, at least... 0-

0 Down here in the southern sector, we text 'him' or 'her', or 'send him/her a text'. Then we read the 'texts' on our 'mobiles'. (I'm afraid some people say 'moby', pronounced as in 'Moby ***'.) 02br
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00'Cellphone' was common round here in the early days, but I haven't heard it for a long time. 02br
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