Be Excellent To Each Other

"Sent you a text" is too easy.

Texted you.

I do hate text as a verb, but it's easy and makes sense to others.

I was going to text you, but he texted me and told me not to bother.

Malc

I texted you on a Monday
But you did not get my text till Tuesday
Because of a network problem

I texted you on a Wednesday
But did not know that you'd called
Because your SIM card was not correctly installed

Oh, no no no

You texted me on a Thursday
To say that you would meet me at the shopping centre
And I texted you back and said
"Where should I meet you?"
And you said Dixons
But I did not know which Dixons you meant
Was it the one inside the door
Or was it the one further up by Currys
...These are my worries

You texted me on a Monday
To tell me it was over
But I did not understand
Because you used predictive text

And it was
Jrrg gruuh nnmmg guu hmmg doo doo doo

Texted. Anyone who disagrees is a retard. And I have a journalism degree.

What does that work out to? It's bothering me now.

That's exactly what it works out to, if they used predictive text. I guess they meant "thought you were using predictive text but actually, you weren't".

Still, knock yourself out:

[crappyguitarmusic]Sent you a message.[/crappyguitarmusic]

You know that shit guitar music? It's actually a song by a shitty awful emo band that the two presenters are in. Very LOL-some.

What the fuck are you lot on about?

The videos you can watch on the 360 dashboard, with the presenters that look like Malabar.

People watch them?

Once.


Anyway, texted is a shite word. They've sent you a fucking message (or text at a push, but I prefer message).

Messaged can GTFF too.

OMG SENT U A TXT

I clicked on the one with the girl with dark hair once... and quickly turned it off.

It is, however, the right answer. 'Texted' is the closest of what's there.

Jessica Chobot? Her career path is interesting. She was a z-list model who was interested in games, she had the idea for this rather famous picture (sort of faintly NSFW), she convinced one of the gaming blogs to run it (IGN I think), and managed to parlay the resulting PR into a career as a games writer (and eventually ended up on the dashboard in those gaming tips videos). Frankly, I think she played that pretty well.

I wonder what they first saw in attractive, intelligent Xbox girl... who has breasts?

Told you that someone is selling a Sega Master System cheap somewhere ?



And is willing to lick slightly unpleasant tasting things.

I might try this. Can someone lend me a PSP?

Despite this, you start a sentence with 'and.'

Also, is a journalism degree something to brag about?

There's even merchandise.

I'm pretty sure that's widely considered to be acceptable these days. I see it quite a lot anyway.

I've rarely worried about doing it. 'But', too.

That doesn't mean it's acceptable to an old fart like me. It's an absolute disgrace, I tell you.

Standards slipping, destruction of the language, blah, blah, harrumph.

But what?

But don't expect me to be happy about starting sentences with 'but,' either.

"Sent you some text" is surely nearer to being correct? Or "sent you a message made of text". Or "Sent you a text message".

I have radioed you some words.

Smessed you.

"I wired you a message on the wireless textie machine device."

My choices are never there in polls.

"couldn't be arsed to speak to you in person"

radio teletype, remember that?

"I have sent you gibberish which is nigh on impossible to read, thus negating the concept of language."

Hard to forget it.

I assume you also "write collections of letters and punctuation on appropriately sized pieces of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses."

Transmitted 160 7-bit characters via SMS over GSM (or CDMA if you're a forrin).

*awaits a Gaywood smackdown*

On a personal level, my messages are usually more than 160 characters, so split across multiple texts.

I wanted to say more than a tweet, but less than an email, so I used my telephone to send you these characters.

That sounds like the beginning of a love song.

I forgot text messages had a character limit. It's been so long since it mattered, both cost- and interface-wise.

Sounds like you in the bargains thread.

I never claimed to use the most correct version!

Betextenated. "I betextenated you". Works fine.

Ooh, good. I like 'entextenated' more, though.

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Or the title of a Country'n'Western song. Except there's nothing in it about your dog dying, your wife leaving you, or being maimed in a furrin theatre of war.