The Death of Imagination

Indeed, I find it fascinating how regular Catalan sentences will go in and out of my ability to understand them as a Spanish speaker so quickly -- Eurovision entries demonstrate this well, with lyrics like, "És difícil saber que és molt dur el que m'espera sense tu al meu costat," and I start mentally PARSING it as Spanish (as it is pronounced identically to the Castillian counterpart to start off with) until I hit "molt", and then it quickly disintegrates. :: laugh ::