Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

• The book tells the story of 12-year-old Riddley Walker after surviving a nuclear holocaust.
• The author, Russell Hoban, tells the story utilizing "a combination of post-apocalyptic slang and Riddley's own awkward preteen UK slang."
• Not only did the author use slang, he also altered the sentence structure, as shown in this example: “Theyre mor blip dogs nor real 1s tho.”
• One example of slang in the novel is “wester day,” which means "yesterday."

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

• The book tells the story of two castaways who altered the culture, government and religion of the island nation of San Lorenzo.
• Vonnegut created a series of slang words based on real, English words. These words had supposedly been introduced to the islanders by the castaways, and then altered to fit into their own language.
• One example is "karass" which came from the English word “class,” as in 'a class of people'. Vonnegut then builds off this baseword "karass" to create a second slang term "duprass: a karass consisting of exactly two people."