What can I say? I'm a linguist. =D
I did need some serious help from google, but it actually all started in wikipedia... where I researched the many fascinating trees of vulgar latin. Then I realized I could just type in the phrase, tell google to find a related page, and had babel fish translate whatever blog I'd just found. In wonderful bold letters, "CATALAN". Though in all honesty, I thought it was either Romanian or Catalan before I plugged it in.
And that's the story of how!