Syl was really big into Third World lit, Stella Jr. said, mentioning a couple of postcolonial writers from the Indian subcontinent with whom I was familiar only as vowelly names on book spines.

I'd like to come, but the thing is, I just can't afford it.

'Why were those men singing to me last night?' Sam asked the manager, who spoke English because of his time working in 'gringolandia'.

Kilocalories, a heavy right-skewed variable, were log-transformed to help robustize inference, and also, importantly, to avoid a few large observations from biasing results.