Conjugating the verb "to dive"

[ffestpirate]

I doven last week and I'm going to be all diven out tomorrow. I hope everyone else gets a chance to daven as well

 

[Buoyant1]

I came....I saw...I DIVED?!!?!

I came....I saw...I DOVE???!?!?

Veni...Vedi...DIVI?

 

[girldiverllc]

This is an interesting thread...and a subject that I constantly fight with.

When I come back from a dive and tell someone "I just dived a splendid wall...", while technically correct, it sounds funny to me. I use alot of "extra" words to avoid this. "I had a splendid wall dive..." "Just went for a splendid dive on a wall..."

Even non-divers ask me the difference between dove and dived.

Hmmm....

 

[drbill]

My understanding is that both dived and dove are correct, so let's just go and do it!

 

[HowardE]

This is an interesting thread...and a subject that I constantly fight with.

When I come back from a dive and tell someone "I just dived a splendid wall...", while technically correct, it sounds funny to me. I use alot of "extra" words to avoid this. "I had a splendid wall dive..." "Just went for a splendid dive on a wall..."

Even non-divers ask me the difference between dove and dived.

Hmmm....

just because things sound funny, or don't sound right, doesn't mean that they aren't.

Just because one usage is "correct" or "proper" doesn't make an accepted alternative "less correct"

Dove has been accepted into the vernacular, and thus is an accepted form as the the past tense of dive.


Also - while we're talking about grammar... it's "DIVE SAFELY" not "DIVE SAFE"

 

[Darth Fishhead]

As a recovering linguophile, this was something that I actually looked up in elementary school, as pertaining to diving board diving (as opposed to ScubaBoard diving?). Both are grammatically correct and as far as I can tell equally accepted.

Word.

 

[Noviz]

I have always been told that "dived" is more technically correct, but "dove" is widely accepted. I look forward to reading other replies.

Oh, great. Not we have tec talkers (and rec talkers)?

What about "I dive, I dove, I have divven?"

 

[lamont]

its a FAQ, multiple old threads on it.

i don't understand why people get so hung up on language... but then, i'm generally too lazy to even use capital letters...

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

So what faction of scubadiving are klingons if borg are DIR?

Obviously, the Klingons have never diven (rhymes with driven) but they have dove

If I've come back from a dive, I know I done dove dat dere _____ (wreck, wall, site, etc.) and now my dive is done.

Just down the highway from me is Dey Say street (no lie - look it up in Lutcher, LA)

Our real estate agent explained the origin of the name,

'round heah, sometime dey say dis, sometime dey sey dat, and sometime dey sey d'udder ting

After many years in South Texas and now several in SE LA, I'm pretty flexible. I think I probably heard the most 'correct' English on Grand Cayman of the spots we done dove

 

[Belmont]

I scuba
I scubaed
I have scubaded
:mooner: