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Someone actually translated that poem into my conlang for me; it was a pretty good attempt, considering how little I had posted at the time. I was so flattered: my first fan-translation! And the rhythm worked out surprisingly well.

Despite years of Spanish, I always had the bad habit of forming the future tense as "Voy a X" instead of properly using the conjugation I should have. It wasn't actually incorrect (at least by the dialect I was learning), but it sounded a bit...juvenile. "I'm gonna do X, I'm gonna do Y" isn't the mo...