Observation 11/22

Sometimes knowing a different language (or some of a different language) makes working in your mother tongue slightly frustrating when those two languages cross over. The word "pays" is obviously a verb concerning money in English, but in French it is the word for "country."

So, caught up in the middle of composing something, and having your eye fall on that word, and confusing yourself for a good three minutes and being incapable of thinking of the word as anything but the French form, is frustrating. And odd. But exciting nonetheless, that for once you are identifying first with another language before the one you've known all your life.