How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) or (Feed Chatter #.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I tried to tell myself that being here was not re: sleeping but re: being with your friends and doing great stuff. (2.4)
The lingo of the feed is so pervasive that Titus even thinks like email—"re" meaning "concerning."
Quote #2
For awhile we played a game with the ball, and we were twirling all over the place, and we were like, what it's called when you skim really close over the surface of something, we were that to the floor, with our arms out... (2.15)
Titus, we think the word you're looking for is "glide." You were gliding on the floor. As we see in other places in the book, Titus and his friends don't have to think much about their language, because the feed will step in and offer them the word they're looking for. Thanks, feed! Sometimes we wish someone would do that for us.
Quote #3
She smirked. "Oh, mmm-hm," she said. "You put the 'supper' back in 'suppuration.'"
Link thought that was hilarious. Of course, he didn't have any idea what the hell she was talking about either, but he started laughing while the rest of us were still looking up "suppuration" on the feed English-to-English wordbook. (4.32-33)
Whoa, Violet! Check out how she uses one mighty long word here—four whole syllables, which Titus and his friends have to look it up in the "English-to-English wordbook" a.k.a. dictionary. Seems that English has become a foreign language even to its native speakers.