As with many bilingual families, it was normal to observe frequent code-switching at our dinner table.

These scenes—filled with interpersonal violence, killings, and verbal and physical abuse—gradually become the inenarrable episodes in the film, episodes that tense up or challenge their own narrative flow.

‘And a hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brainpan kens to this blessed moment.’

That the twinked little brat doesn't want to mention that the only reason she won a single game was that daddy cut her a fat check.