[CULTURE] A Talossan Language Contest / Ünă Cumpetaziun da Mocts

[Iac Marscheir]

Really? That's weird, I didn't notice that.  Okay, cool.  Anything else?

EDIT: I'm actually going to assume that one laconic comment comprises the whole of the errors, and remove the warning. If there's anything else, let me know.

I apologize for being late to this, but, while "Ian veneva àl marcă" isn't technically wrong, I still feel that a better translation would be "Ian tent venescu àl marcă."

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Why?  Wouldn't that be "Ian has gone to the store," the present perfect? "Ian went to the store" is a simple past statement.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

Why?  Wouldn't that be "Ian has gone to the store," the present perfect? "Ian went to the store" is a simple past statement.

Talossan doesn't strictly separate the two, but personally I think using veneva was perfect fine here.

[King Txec]

I would think for an introductory lesson, we'd not want to make things too difficult. I wouldn't teach some grammar concepts to my students who aren't ready for that level of language.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Why?  Wouldn't that be "Ian has gone to the store," the present perfect? "Ian went to the store" is a simple past statement.

Talossan doesn't strictly separate the two, but personally I think using veneva was perfect fine here.

English is different from a lot of other languages with how it uses those labels. But also I'm not sure it really matters in this context.

Is the alternate translation here actually grammatically better as a translation, or is it just stylistically preferred? If it's the latter, then it's crazy to insist on it in the first lesson, since it would be much more complicated to explain unnecessary change of tense in the translation.

I chose this verb because it's extremely common (useful to know by itself) and it has very irregular conjugation (useful to show the skill of using the translator correctly and separating out different tenses, persons, etc). If it's necessary, I can focus on the grammatical gender skill in the first lesson instead, but I would prefer not to do that because it's downstream of agreement in general.