One of them strode to his side and ran experienced fingers through his clothes. No rod, he reported, where's the jewelry?

The wreck was total—as total as that ever is which trusts its all to one argosy.

The translingual/transnational writers described here can be called specular border writers, to use Abdul JanMohamed's term, or writers of exophony, to use Tawada's term.

To understand why many Singaporeans remained unimpressed with the state's call to Pinyinize personal names, particularly their family names, we need first to appreciate that the more successfully implemented SMC measures were successful precisely because Singaporeans were convinced of their pragmatic and communitarian rationales.