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Luis- the co-founder of Duolingo, and one of the creators of crowd sourcing. :-)
Because Duo clears all the comments after awhile in order to make room for new questions from the new students.
(also, I imagine the program would slow quite a bit if not periodically purged)
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Sooner or later, the biological clock begins to run down. Cells that had faithfully renewed themselves begin to fail. A heart that pounded away in perfect synchrony begins to run down after a couple of billion beats. Skin that bloomed in the spring sunshine begins to weather and flake in life's autumn. Brains shrink, spines curve, eyes begin to fail, hearing goes, organs become cancerous, bones begin to crumble and memory perishes.
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Scusa Macossay, vedo soltanto adesso il tuo messaggio, io lo tradurrei così nonostante in inglese sia più bello:
Prima o poi, l'orologio biologico comincia a correre verso il basso. Le cellule che si erano fedelmente rinnovate, cominciano a fallire. Un cuore che batteva via in perfetta sincronia comincia a correre giù dopo un paio di miliardi di battiti. La pelle che fiorì nel sole primaverile inizia a scaldarsi con le intemperie autunnali della vita. I cervelli si restringono, le spine si curvano, gli occhi cominciano a venir meno, l'udito va, gli organi diventano cancerosi, le ossa cominciano a sgretolarsi e la memoria perisce.
he could of just used google translate but if he did not, well that is amazing
This is what google translate says:
Sorry But Essay , I only see your message now, I would translate it though in English is more beautiful: Sooner or later, the biological clock begins to run down. Cells that had been faithfully renewed began to fail. A heart whirling in perfect sync starts to run down after a couple of billions of beats. The skin that bloomed in the spring sunshine began to warm up with the autumn weather in life. The brains narrow, the thorns curl, the eyes begin to fall, the hearing goes, the organs become cancerous, the bones begin to crumble and memory perishes.
But of course people will respond. It strikes a chord within each of us. :-)
Because one thing our body needs to live is oxygen. The same chemical compound that is slowly setting fire to our cells. All the while, gravity destroys the regenerative abilities. This leaves our bodies with lower celluar count. If accidents, tragedies, and illness hasnt gotten to you. Oxygenated bacteria will.
I've heard the argument before, but I don't get why oxygen destroys your body. No real fire occurs, surely... I don't think gravity has anything to do with it, why would it? Oxygenated bacteria? What are those? xD
You could try putting into your favourite search engine 'why does oxygen destroy your body'. Or, in case that loads the question by the presumption, try just 'does oxygen destroy your body'.
Me, I'm putting in 'what are oxygenated bacteria' and still trying to figure that out. Did Fox mean aerobic bacteria perhaps? Or anaerobic bacteria??
Meanwhile I think my tongue is already dead... I try to repeat some of the longer Italian phrases at full speed... crash+burn. :(
@dusics95 I get it. And you're correct, the mechanism of how has been offered, (in beautifully rendered Italian), but rather Sadly, somewhere along the way we have all begun to accept how as a substitute for the explanation for why. (selah)
so i was the 666th Like. I'm asking my self what is wrong with me and why do we die and now i have to deal with the devil. life is great :)
Why would I want to learn this phrase? I've been learning Italian for weeks now and I still don't know "where the toilets are!"
It's a reflexive version of trovare (so trovarsi), and is basically akin to saying "where does one find the bathroom".
Isn't the reflexive more like "where does the bathroom find itself?". That isn't normal English, but some languages allow inanimate objects to 'behave' in ways that are odd to us.
DuoLingo is not designed to teach "traveler" language lessons. If you want to know the critical phrases, try one of the traveler oriented language programs/books.
True, it's not a "traveler" language course. On the other hand, DL has taught us a lot about eating and drinking, so knowing how to ask for the bathroom seems logical to me.
it is just a matter of time since we keep snakes in our boots and gorillas as pets...
A serious question...is there any good way of knowing why sometimes an é is used and most of the time è? Do they sound different? I used to think that words ending in accents went the opposite way (like é) but came across a counterexample.
I think typically the è is pronounced as a short e while the é is pronounced as a long e.
Other way around, actually: Vowels with grave accents (à, è, etc) are longer than vowels with acute accents (é). But E is the only vowel that takes an acute accent in Italian, so it's not super relevant.
Organisms grow old because nature doesn't need them any more. If the purpose of life is to procreate and replicate successfully - this is the logic of the so-called selfish gene theory - then it helps to stay healthy long enough to generate children and provide them with food. Immortality arrives with your offspring, and is only guaranteed when all your children also have children.
“As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.” ― Epictetus
Duo tries to tackle all those awkward questions... next up, where do babies come from?
Hebrews 9:27 says "And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
That's the what, not the why though, the why is Romans 5:12 (from Genesis 3:6)
but wouldn't that translate to "why are we dead?"
well, it actually end up meaning the same thing anyway hehehe
Exactly hahah they both translate the same thing and that's because many past participles, used in Italian to make a compound verb (passato prossimo, trapassato prossimo, trapassato remoto etc..), are also used as adjectives. So "morti" for "why did we die" is a past participle, while for "why are we dead" is the adjective. Hope I've been clear ^^
Because our existence must be ephemeral, otherwise our lives would be pointless.
This is possibly the most profound, deep, and heavy sentence that I have ever been tasked to translate on this site...
"Now class, what did we learn today?" "How to scare off any Italians we try to talk to?" "Perfect!"
I so hear ya! I think I made the same comment on another thread, but yet I'm still punishing myself.
It would have been nice to have been introduced to this word previously, been able to tap on it and see the translation.
42, it's the answer to life, the universe, and everything, so death must fit into it somehow.
Because we deserve to die.
…and the Sybil, to whose precipitate wish had been granted immortality, responded: θανεῖν θέλω.
Because without it, we couldn't experience the illusion of time and duality. Easy ;)
As our good pal Uncle Seneca said "You will not die because you are ill, you will die because you are alive."
Thanks for the anxiety trigger right on New Year's Eve, DuoLingo. Everything I needed today. ¬¬
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Invece ci dobbiamo pensare! Why are we, mortal creatures, here? And where are we going?
Did anyone else hear "perche" loud and mechanical if they listen to it slowly? (Sorry, no accents.)
I had a little trouble with the pronunciation. I couldn't tell if she was saying "mogliamo" or "modliamo". Both were wrong.
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I guess you could divide the reasons for aging and finally dying to the following seven:
1. Cell loss and cell atrophy
2. Nuclear mutations
3. Mitochondrial mutations
4. Death-resistant cells
5. Extracellular crosslinks
6. Extracellular aggregates
7. Intracellular aggregates
(Not including accidents, murders and the like.)
Solve the above, and we'll live virtually forever.
I believe that actuaries have determined that in the absence of illness/disease, accidents will knock is off by the time we reach age 150
Surely from this discussion I have learned more about biology, physiology, and philosophy than about Italian.
To answer the question: because there is a bucket out there, and nature will make us kick it.
@I-AM-THE-LEGION I agree. It is a "god's" wishlist. Gratefully, it is not "The God's wishlist" I think He proved that. :-)
Murder,old age,accidents,panic (quite rare only under the right circumstances)and more.
One answer to that is that during replication the ends of the DNA are cut down by certain enzymes, meaning the loss of crucial information. Supressing that might lead to cancer but cancer cells are immortal so... Why do we die? Because our cells die and because the other choice would be cancer. Thanks for being at my TEDtalk Duolingo Edition
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The audio wasn't clear - It could have been mordiamo or moriamo. fortunately I chose correctly, this time.
I've listened to her say this so many times, sounds like Perche no tiamo
The second word, Moriamo, is really hard to hear, even on slow. It's a little garbled and sounds like there is a g in the middle
The 'do' is missing from the literal translation. Not to mention it is somewhat of a morbid question to ask on Doulingo with the happy green owl.
Imagine having Ceasar walking on earth up until today! Or sitting close to Plato and hear his conversation with Nietzsche?
Thanks for the anxiety trigger right on New Year's eve, DuoLingo. Everything I needed. ¬¬
This bleak given the current situation in italy. Praying for them. Hope they recover and come back stronger than ever.
'Cause two people made a mistake at the very beginning of time and cursed the rest of us. (See Genesis 3)
Who are you to question the Gift of Men, Duo? Only Eru Illuvatar knows the answer to that!
Wow, ok. Whoever is writing the Italian coursework is serious as a heart attack.
