Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 10, 2015

“Flown a Hang Glider”“Dived with SCUBA gear”

Scuba dove perhaps?

“Have you ever been hang gliding?”

“…been scuba diving?”

Writing for a character who is supposed to be very smart doesn’t turn out well when the writer isn’t.

Scuba dove sounds distressingly right. But Hang… glode? :p Hang glided should be fine, really, or just glided (although there are other gliders and other ways to glide.)

Scuba Dived is actually, it seems, meant to be fine, but dove isn’t nesc wrong….

Language change is good for us!

Personally, I like hang glid.

“I’d like to buy a mongoose, and while you’re at it, I’d like to buy another one.”

Sounds familiar to those fortunate enough to listen to Vin Scully. He will apologize for the grammar difficulties in the phrase “…flied out to left field in the second inning.”

English has the best verb conjugation rules because there are so many from which to choose!

I like to say “sleptwalk.”

I hate heights and am extremely prone to motion sickness, so what’s not to love about hang gliding. Going up in a towed glider was bad enough. Was sick for the rest of the day.

Dived.

And glided is correct.

Sheesh. It’s hang-GLIDDEN. Everybody knows that.

Point is, these are things you DO. Present tense is the only tense you need.

sometimes language doesn’t quite cover the situation.

… Scooby-Did? :D