2007-12-27 10:34:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
my 7 year old kid said to me a few days ago
"mum if this is the living room ... are the other rooms the ones we die in ? "
2007-12-27 10:39:58 · answer #1 · answered by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The word more than likely comes from Latin which if you notice is how they name and characterize so many things. DIABETES, I'm not sure about the "betes" part but "dia" means some form of the number two. Look it up!
2007-12-27 10:40:35 · answer #2 · answered by mamasbaby 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When the pancreas stops working or malfunctions, it no longer processes sugar and everything is sugar. It requires medicine to have any live-a-betis.
It is the same with malfunction of the thyroid glands that causes hypothroidism, if one is going to have any life at all, it requires medicine.
2007-12-27 10:45:17 · answer #3 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is pronounced that way because YOU choose to.
Where I come from, we say 'Dee-ah-betes"
2007-12-27 10:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, no, no! Enough of this PC nonsense pink-ribbon wearing be-happy all the damned time silliness.
Give me some good old-fashioned realism. I can't stand one more cutesy thing. Ugh.
2007-12-27 10:47:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Funny, but sad in a way that you do not recognize the root words that it comes from. Try looking it up in a dictionary.
2007-12-27 10:44:06 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess it's kind of like a DIE-it. Why not call it a LIVE-it?
2007-12-27 10:38:25 · answer #7 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because when it's cured we can say "they took the die out of diabetes."
2007-12-27 10:40:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because realistically, people do, in fact, DIE from diabetes.
2007-12-27 10:43:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Spanish it is pronounced DEE-a-BAY-tays. (that BAY-tays would actually have those upside-down e's in it, I think).
Spanish, the positive choice ; )
2007-12-27 10:40:43 · answer #10 · answered by Phoenix: Princess of Cupcakes 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋