YOU SAID:
Where have the merrymakers gone?
INTO JAPANESE
陽気な人たちはどこへ行ったの?
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Where did the cheerful people go?
INTO JAPANESE
陽気な人々はどこへ行ったのですか?
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Where did the cheerful people go?
That didn't even make that much sense in English.