"Ĉu vi manĝas salon?"
Translation:Do you eat salt?
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Find me at the condiment table at McDonalds, ripping open packets of salt and eating them whole.
That thought is repulsive. Brb, have to go wash my mouth of the imaginary salt you put in there
The sentence doesn't specify that they're eating salt by itself. It could be a question about whether or not the person has a signifcant amount of salt in their diet.
Eating kind of implies eating it by itself. You don't eat sauce, you apply it to food. The same principle applies here.
So if one doesn't eat sauce how is it ingested? There's an implication that the question means "do you add extra salt to your food." No one eats salt by itself for obvious health reason but sauce can be eaten or drunk solo.
If you don't have sodium of some kind in your diet then you will straight up die so I'm guessing this is a rhetorical question.
Hyponatremia! Your brain needs electrolytes (sodium) to conduct signals and maintain neurological connections.
This comment couldn't have come at a better time as I have recently started watching TOS. Take my lingot!
Is there any difference between how one would say, "Do you eat salt?" and "Are you eating salt?" to denote between what someone does generally and what someone does at the current time?
But then how would one distinguish between the two meanings? Is it just contextual?
Contextual, yes, but if you really want to emphasize that it is happening right now, use the "-ant" suffix.
Just say "nun" (now) if you really want to make a difference, usually context suffices.
In that case, why did it say I was wrong when I answered "Do you eat all of it?" for "Ĉu vi manĝas ĉiom?" I don't see any way to go back and report it.
Mailman the Spy said that there is no difference in Esperanto. In fact, Esperanto allows you to make the difference, if you want! "Are you eating salt?!" (in French " Vous ètes en train de manger du sel?!") would be in Esperanto: "Ĉu vi estas manĝanta salon?!".
I guess the word "salo" in Esperanto comes from russian/ukranian word "salo", which means "salty pork's fat"
That's not salt, it's sugar. Clearly the crystalline structure is monoclinic (hexagonal-ish) while salt is cubic.
hahaha, my first read was 'do you eat at the salon' or like 'Do you eat hairdressers' and I was thrown for a second.... :P
What is it with Duolingo and eating crystallized white stuff you aren't supposed to eat by itself? Over in the Italian course, everybody (and everything) is constantly eating sugar.
