"Perché moriamo?"
Translation:Why do we die?
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Luis- the co-founder of Duolingo, and one of the creators of crowd sourcing. :-)
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.
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“As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.” ― Epictetus
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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.
but wouldn't that translate to "why are we dead?"
well, it actually end up meaning the same thing anyway hehehe
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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 ^^
42, it's the answer to life, the universe, and everything, so death must fit into it somehow.
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
As our good pal Uncle Seneca said "You will not die because you are ill, you will die because you are alive."
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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.
Imagine having Ceasar walking on earth up until today! Or sitting close to Plato and hear his conversation with Nietzsche?
I typed "moriano" (which doesn't exist as far as I know) and was marked correct.
The correction algorithm allows one wrong letter per word to slide by as a typo as long as it doesn't turn it into a bad translation. Since "moriano" is only one letter off from "moriamo" and there is no "moriano", it let you pass.
