Bubbly & Bogus

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Okay, I am in need of the Wisdom of the Crowd.

The translator who’s turning the Uglies series into complex Chinese wrote me to ask for a little help with the terms “bubbly” and “bogus.”

As she puts it, “When these terms show up in different places, according to the context, the meanings are not exactly the same, which means when I translate them into Chinese, they might have several versions for the same English words or terms. I hope I can stick with the same expression when it comes to the same English word, so hopefully I can create the Chinese terms that will meet all your definitions.”

Reading that, I realize once more how tough a translator’s job is. And word-inventing writers like me are probably a thousand times more crazy-making than normal. So us native English speakers should help her out.

What do the words “bubbly” and “bogus” mean to you? And how do their various meanings all relate to each other?

113 thoughts on “Bubbly & Bogus”

  1. I think that bubbly means cool, sort of. Maybe it just means peppy. New, maybe? Interesting? Is there a Chinese word for cool?
    Bogus is easier. Lame, for one. Stupid. Uncool, if there’s a Chinese word for cool. Uninteresting.
    I understand I’m not being very helpful. Sorry.

  2. Bubbly to me means ‘thrill-making’. But I don’t know if that’s a term in Chinese. And bogus… Let’s see… either ‘idiotic’ or ‘not cool’

  3. Well i think bogus means something BORING not fun something that is totally not in fashion. And bubbly is something exciting and awesome something that makes you happy and peppy!!!

  4. Oh wow, I’m #3! Or at least I think i am. Anyway, to the crux of the post:

    Well bogus is easy- I agree with above poster in that it means “stupid”. “Stupid” and/or “riddiculous”.

    As for bubbly… well… ooh! I know! It means “awesome”. ‘Awesome” and, and… “cool”!

    Was that helpful?

    Also, I have a question for Scott: I’m trying to find an author or someone from a publishing company to be a mentor for my senior project that I have this year. Any ideas on how I should go about this?

    -M*star

  6. Bubbly is the kind of feeling you get when you are at the top of a rollercoaster. And if they haven’t been on a rollercoaster, then it feels like you are being taken over by littly baby bubbles that wanna make you laugh and enjoy the bubbles.

    Bogus is when somthing is so unbelieveable that it turns strange, and then bogus. or when somone does somthing really stupid, you can say that they did somthing bogus.

    THat’s what I thought of the two words. Hope it helps!!

    Kadie-Wa

  7. Scott, you must be a translators worst nightmare. Here are my definitions.

    bubbly- oposite of pretty minded. when you can think for yourself and not worry about the lesions.

    bogus- lame, boring, dull

  8. Bubbly means social and popular, but lacking when it comes to brains or common sense.

    Bogus is something lame or just plain ‘ew’.

    Bubbly always seems like fun or exciting, but not nearly logical.

    Bogus always seems annoying or boring.

    Hope it helps!

  10. When I hear bubbly I think of: exciting, energized, risk-taking just for the thrill of it.

    When I hear bogus (love this word) I think of: insane, weird, crazy. And not crazy and insane as in psycho-killer, I mean it as in great or “Wow thats a great idea!” “Wow thats a crazy idea!” That type of thing. Sorry it’s hard to explain my logic, but I swear I have some- it’s just confusing. Hope I could help.

    P.S. I wish I could read Chinese…

  13. I think bubbly means that you are sort of empty-minded in a way that you have nothing to worry about. Bogus means like how some kids would say “Ahhh this is sooo gay.” They all relate to each other because it’s like the slang on Tally’s time.

  14. I think Bubbly means ‘cool/exciting’ or ‘excited’ depending on the context and Bogus means ‘stupid’.
    But Bubble-headed is ‘naive’ or ‘stupid’ or something of that sort ‘childish’ maybe.

    I never thought about that. Even for the Midnighters translator and almost any book has one or two made up words that show up a lot.

  16. Let’s see bubbly can mean: clear-minded/thinking clearly, fun, happy, excited/exciting, cool…bubblehead is what the specials call the pretties meaning pretty heads
    Bogus can mean: lame, stupid, boring, etc.

    Wow, that must be so hard to translate!

  18. bogus – bull crap, strange, uncool
    bubbly – uh.. bubbly? i dont know. i kind of relate it to a euphoria type thing, maybe drug or cafine induced. if that even helps…

  19. okay, i’m posting this without reading any of the other comments to not give me ideas, so sorry if i repeat or something.
    funny, i was just reading specials like five minutes ago.

    Bubbly–well, in the beginning it means like, cool, awesome, trendy, the kind of stuff the pretties like.
    later, when zane and tally talk about being bubbly, they’re talking about staying with reality, an adrenile rush sort of thing, thinking clearly.
    sort of a lower form of icy in specials. also, they talk about the pretties as being bubbleheads too.
    a bit of random analyzing, but i see a connection with how they were always also talking about the pretties drinking champagne, like the firework metaphors.
    so like, champagne has bubbles, so yeah.

    bogus–lame, geeky, not as cool as you expected. this one’s not really as deep, cuz they really only talk about it in pretty-speak. i get this image of stuff u thought would be cool, but turned out to be a big blowout.

    yeah…so there’s my way-too-long analysis. hope it helps, complex chinese folk.

  20. bubbly, hmm well bubbly means to me fun, cool, awesome, “in”

    and bogus means stupid, weird, lame, you know, wrong, sort of.

  25. The feelings that always came up for me when I read bubbly in your books was exhilarating and effervescent, sometimes combined with the cultural underpinnings of cool.

    I also liked the champagne reference, which I also felt underlying the term – surely there’s a Chinese word for that sort of phenomenon that doesn’t translate to “fermented” or whatnot.(ewww)

    As for bogus, I think lame and un-cool about sum it up.

    Hope the Chinese language is up to handling your special brand of genius. 😀

  26. I think Bogues means something along the lines of False, or wrong, but if u look at it as slang then probably something like lame, or uncool.
    Bubbly is a little harder…lemme think about it.

  27. Bubbly is like, focused due to adrenaline? so i guess focused, or clear or something similar. Bogus is lame, uncool, stupid, etc…

  28. i think these are those kind of words you say o ya i know what those words mean you can use them correctly saying wow what you just did was so bogus or that your new flash tattoo is bubbly… but when someone wants a offical defintion you go o um uhh… etc…

    bubbly- cool, exciting, thrilling, jumping out of a air balloon with only a hoverboard 😛
    bogus- lame, stupid, Aya rank in the beginning of extras 😉 (had to put that in)

  29. I agree with kheidi-la that like many words you know the def but its just not in words… so here goes

    bubbly: cool, good(in the pretty mind), happy making, fun, enjoyable, etc

    bogus: non existance, non important, not cool, not good, etc

    bubbly and bogus could easily bedscribed as antonyms but to me they seem like more. in the way that bubbly is used when the pretties feel well pretty and bogus is giving them a miniscule taste of ugly. Obviously they hate that

  30. Hearing the words “bubbly” and “bogus” sound like contradicting words to me. Bubbly means tons (exzagerating) of different meanings. Words that suddenly come to mind are: happy, excited, fluttery, enthusiastic, just to list a few. Then, Bogus could mean: boring, dull, exasperating, the same thing. So really when you put it into perspective they contradict each other. In ways that they could possibly be the same is the same way as take for example the word(s), “shut up!” That doesn’t always have to mean, be quite, zip the trap. Same thing goes for “bogus.” Instead of always associating bogus with boring and dull, use it for enthusiasm. “That was totally bogus!” Let’s just say that some skater said that. There is how you can associate bogus with bubbly. All you need to do is to just think a little outside of the box, or maybe a little further away from the box, depending on how far your imagination and word knowledge lets you go.

  31. Bubbly…exactly that. bubbles in your stomach. butterflies in your stomach. clarity in your head. excitement, nervousness, anxious, frightened. all different. bubbly could mean a thousand different things…but one thing ive noticed, whenever your bubbly, your heart beats off the charts. flash tattoos sent swirling, palms sweating, the flow of adrenaline and the need to DO something. THATS what bubbly is.

    Bogus…i have nothing to add. stupid, ridiculous, nonsense, uncool, standing out, not the way its supposed to be. you guys already covered it.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  32. a lot of people seem to keep saying bubbly as “peppy” or “cool”, but i think (in your books anyway) that it means high like on a drug or something. it might just be me but like all the time when zane in pretties says Stay bubbly, he might be meaning stay high do not go back to being a bubblehead, you know? and as for bogus, lame fits it all…

  33. hey Amy-la! *cough cough* i mean David+Tally forever! love the lookup…i won. that was two easy

    its funny how some people gave the definition for bubble-headed instead of bubbly…basically the exact opposites of each other, even though they said it was the definition for bubbly. kind of funny. yepyepyep.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  34. Bubbly = Er well.. it means like they’re high, but they’re happy or something like that the word always makes me think of someone head over heels in love.. like when you can’t speak or all you can do is think about that specific thing xD

    Bogus means totally fake or ‘as ifffff mate’ or something like that, or it’s not as believable as a flying piggeh.

    Later Gater.

  35. Bubbly for me has always meant a confident, happy-go-lucky, bright-eyed with exitment, bursring with enthusiasm person. Bogus is harder…Stupid, lame, fake kind-of.

  36. haha. yep, i agree with everyone up there.
    i reckon its pretty easy to “translate” bubbly and bogus into regular english. they’re basically just the in words for cool/lame, exciting, kickin/baad idea.
    mm.

  37. I forgot to say how bubbly and bogus are related, for me they are opposites, but they are related when the word ‘bubble-head’ pops up. Bubble-head means the same thing as bogus, referring to a person, that is.

    I’m bubble-headed this morning, it’s so early.

  38. “Bubbly” puts me in mind of the champagne they’re always drinking in New Pretty Town. Champagne is kind bubbly and is a drink that people have at celebrations. So “bubbly” puts me in mind of parties, maybe flamboyance. Basically, someone who is bubbly is happy (though usually they are superficially so, and their happiness dissolves the minute the hangover hits). “Bubbly” also makes me think of clearheadedness, oddly enough, b/c of the way Zane uses it. “Stay bubbly,” meaning, don’t descend into the airheadedness of prettyheads.

    So I guess you could say it depends on who uses it and how it’s used. It has been a while since I read the books, so I’m just drawing from memory. But when pretties use “bubbly” it usually is akin to “cool,” or “stylish,” or….I guess you could say “popular-making.” And then when a non-prettyhead, or someone like Zane who knows better, uses “bubbly,” it’s closer to the way the specials use “icy.”

    And bogus goes kinda the same way. To me, it’s like uncool or annoying or bad or bs.

    I think both the words are versatile, like most slang, and can mean slightly different things depending on the context.

  39. well im not good at defintions but ill give synomns

    Bogus- bad stupid lame

    Bubbly-exciting energetic

    =) good luck

  40. bubbly is like happy or thats exciting or great,amazing just generly as rosie put it excitingly energetic.in new pretty town there always drinking champaine and isn’t champain bubbly? any way those are my ideas.

    bogas is like if someone says thats bogas or thats stupid.bad lame, completly ridiculuse( sorry can’t spell.)
    HIH

  41. I think the meaning of both words change depending on what book you’re in. In Uglies, the words have a bit less meaning than Pretties. I guess it’s sort of the “outside looking in” mentality. A cage means something different to a lion as it does to a human.

  42. Bogus: boring, crap (well, okay, that one won’t help you at all!), lame, stupid, uncool… ya get the picture!

    Bubbly: super happy in a kind of ditzy way, like when my friend gets hyper… but one word??? hmmm…

  43. When I read the books Bubbly seems to mean “clarity of mind with sharpened senses due to excess adrenaline.” Any time Pretties are “bubbly,” they’re doing something that gives them a physical adrenaline rush, like bungee jumping or hoverboarding or the like. So other words/concepts like “sharp,” “clear,” “rush,” or “emerging from a mental fog,” would all be accurate substitutes for Bubbly in each respective context.

    Contextually, Bogus has a political or systematic tinge to it. It’s often used to describe something beyond “out of fashion,” or “not very pretty-making.” Any time an adult or other authority figure tries to lie to an uglie, pretty, or special, Tally usually tags it as Bogus. The pretties tend to throw it around more casually than others, but it still means something is “not cool” in the collective understanding of the group.

  44. Bubby to me, I think of excited but I know that’s not the best descriptive word. I agree with Rebecca (no not because we have the same name) she has a point with the champane thing but thats not the only way they stay bubbly. I think every pretty needs other pretties to stay bubbly, so maybe a need? I don’t know maybe Scott you can use this idea to think of something to tell them!!lyl 12 DAYS!!!!
    –

  46. i dont know if this will help at all but i’ve always seen bubbly as being a ‘pretty’ word and i cant imagine it being multiple words…it doesnt seem right…i think they are both kind of ‘different’ words that just pretties use. i agree with whoever said that bogus is kind of like uncool for the pretties and bubbly is just…just a pretty word…do the pretties even know what it really means?

  47. bubbly is like..happy or excited. its just a form of that depending on the sentence. and then bogus is uncool, upset..not happy.

  48. Yeah, bubbly is like being excited but clear headed about it, where bogus means fake…I think. Or just really lame.

  49. Hmmm…. lets see… Bubbly at the beginning of Pretties is like cool, or just good. But when they start with the cure it means more like… thrilling, adrenaline rush-ing, focusing, exciting. Bogus is like not cool, dumb, no fun, retarded.

  51. Well, to me bubbly and bogus are interesting words, considering that in your novels they are spoken by teenagers who in our world would be labeled as drug addicts. But from a drug addict’s point of view (and I am NOT a drug addict) I’d say that bubbly is more along the lines of awesome, cool, special, exciting, heart pumping, stuff related to how drugs make you feel good. Bogus is more like dull, lame, boring, uncool, stupid, and unacceptable, or in other words hangover-y, headache-y things.

  52. bubbly means like a rush of adrenaline. sparkly!uhh yeah that is not very good.

    Bogus means…like dull or something. maybe like compressed or something.
    “That is so compressed!” nevermind…haha that sounds stupid.

  53. at the begininng bubbly~ Cool or super original

    at the middle Bubbly~ adrenline/ thinking clearly without lesions

    bogus~ lame, unoriginal, boring

  57. Haha I know this has been answered nearly throughly by everyone here, I just decided to put my input just ’cause!

    Well, throughout the books ‘Bubbly’ kept having different meanings for me.

    Bubbly – Clear-minded, rush of adrenaline, exhilarating, extremely happy-making, living life and having fun

    Bogus – Lame, Uncool, something that spoils the happy mood…(basically what everyone else said but hey not my fault I came in late x.x)

    ONLY A FEW WEEKS TO GO! WOO EXTRAS! I hope the bogus run-down book store we have will have it…I mean they didn’t have so yesterday except for one beat up copy it made me mad! AND they only have the first in Justine’s book so if I read it and fall madly in love with it I can’t get the second one unless I order it online x.x Anyways I hope the translating goes good!

  58. As I see everybody has already answered. But whatever.

    bubbly- Something risky, exciting, adrenaline pumping through your veins. So a word to describe that? Exciting, cool. I don’t think I’m helping..

    Bogus- Sucky, stupid, garbage. Yeah, not helping at all am I?

  59. Scott-

    Hopefully this answer will be a little more complex than a lot of the simple an bogus answers above. Hopefully it will demonstrate my bubbly thinking process.

    The bubbleheads use bubbly as the general catch-all term, like “shiny” is to the Wheadonverse (especially the Firefly universe.) I guess the most similar term within the real world would be “cool,” yet another amorphous and impossible to translate word. (Bubbly costume, bubbly people, bubbly party, being bubbly.) It all means a lack of worry, anger, or any strong emotion that would make a person feel bogus.) Our heroes, on the other hand, altered the use of bubbly to mean “aware”, “intelligent”, “full of emotion”, or “full of thought”. So when they speak of “staying bubbly”, they mean the exact opposite of what the bubbleheads mean. They mean staying aware, avoiding being pretty-headed, whereas the pretties see bubbly as a fully indulged pretty-headedness.

    Bogus is a little less annoying to translate because though it is the opposite of bubbbly to the pretty heads, it isn’t the opposite to our heroes. While you can engage in sexual activity, experiment with anorexia, abuse caffeine, or self-mutilate to stay “bubbly” in the second sense, not doing these things will make you bubble or pretty-headed, not make you bogus. Now, being bubbleheaded is a bogus thing, but if you see the linguistic usage, it still means the same as it did before. It still means “lame” or “sucky.”

    In fact, to someone who is cured (or trying to cure him or herself) of pretty-headedness, a bubbly conversation is what their peers would call a bogus conversation. All that intellect would get them down. (We could get into the meaning behind “icy”, but you didn’t ask for that.)

  61. To me bubbly means lively, enthusastic, spirited, and entergetic. I think the best definition for bogus would be lame.

  62. i think bubbly means enrgetic, crazy, and preppy, totaly unaware of anything that doesn’t involve ones self. kind of self centred. Bogus to me means dissapionting, sort of like if ones plans were canceled, that would be bogus, or lame. hope that helps a bit. reading over emma’s comment got me confused 😛

  63. u know, everybody seems to keep equating tally and zane to like, drug addicts or something. i think that’s bogus. i never really got that sort of idea. i mean (no offense person i’m quoting, that’s ur opinion and this is mine)
    “engage in sexual activity, experiment with anorexia, abuse caffeine, or self-mutilate”
    ??????????????
    i mean, technically true, but that makes it sound so much evil-ler. i mean, kissing, skipping a couple meals and drinking a lot of coffee is basically all they do in pretties.
    yes, i sound like some kind of psycho enabler now, but i can’t help it.
    they also pulled tricks and did bungee jacket stunts to stay bubbly, and that doesn’t sound so amoral.
    the self-mutilation is truly screwed-up, yes, but they all aknowledged that. i mean, tally and zane were way creeped out when they found out. and cutting was the first thing tally stopped when she was de-specializing.
    people keep describing them as junkies, but i always read it as more of an adrenile thing. and they proved that drinking champage and stuff made you less bubbly, not more.

    also, when i think of bubbly, i sort of have this thread going through the three books. like, in uglies it was to be tricky, in pretties it was to get bubbly, and in specials it was to stay icy. for me, uglies pretties specials is almost synonmous with tricky bubbly icy. even the way the words themselves look. tricky’s sort of normal, mixed and varied, unique. bubbly is sort of soft and shallow, and icy is sharp and short.

    wow, i know i’m over-analyzing. but it’s fun…

  64. -Scott

    Well, i think it is kinda difficult when it comes to bubbly. Because when i read Pretties, i thougt it meant that you were totally down-to-earth. But when I read Specials, i thought it meant like totally supid with your head in the clouds, you know? So, i have come to the conclusion that bubbly means totally yourself. knida like ugly-inded, but not so insecure.
    I think that bogas, basically just means lame. like totally not bubbly. He He…
    Now, i’m still kinda confused about icy… Does it mean like, that your on edge? Or that you are just being totally special-minded?

  65. Something bubbly is anything that gets your adrenaline pumping. It could be simple like that feeling you get when you see a shirt you know would look great on you, or when you climb a tower. It’s exciting and happy-making, but heightens your senses and makes you pay attention.
    Even though you didn’t ask, icy is a more extreme version of bubbly.
    Bogus is stupid, lame, unbelievable, uncool.

  66. Oh! Also, Bubble-headed is head-in-the-clouds, ditzy. I think Tally’s use of Bubble-headed and bubbly at different stages of her adventure shows that she is getting used to the icyness of it all and anyone who isn’t at such extreme emotion and adrenaline can’t possibly understand being icy and thinks the tricks don’t make them bubbly, even though that’s what they’re trying to do with their parties. So she calls them bubble-heads.
    (Sorry for the run-on.)

  67. bogus to me would be like “this sucks” ya know? like “this is bogus” or stupid or pointless.

    bubbly to me would be adrenaline, getting pumped up. like running a lot but enjoying it.
    like in a good way pumped up? maybe excited like butterflies in the stomach?

  68. yeah, this is complicated because the meaning changes over the trilogy. not so much for bogus, which is pretty consistant, but more with bubbly. it means different things with every surgery…

  69. Bubbly to me is sort of a clear-headedness. I guess I see it as a runner’s high sort of thing. Tally always says that it has something to do with your heart starting to pump really really fast. You’re not really thinking when it happens, and you’re not even necessarily happy with how it feels afterward. But during, all you can think about is running or jumping or being hyperactive in any way. This happens to me if I go the whole day without eating, and then have dinner really late. Usually I end up running home from the restaurant because I’m so hyper. And when I’m running (which I normally hate doing) my side hurts and I can’t breathe, but I feel so clear headed and my legs won’t stop. I think that’s what bubbly is.

    Bogus is…bogus. I don’t know. It’s a word that I’ve used everyday since I was about six, so I don’t even know how to define it.

  70. scott,

    everyone is saying basicly the same thing…

    bubbly is cool, adrenaline, or clear-headedness

    bogus is lame, uncool, the exact opposite of bubbly

  71. Scott,

    bubbly and bubbly-headed are also opposites.

    bubbly-headed would be pretty minded, not thinking straight, or head-in-the-clouds. the worst part is, the pretties dont know they are bubbly-headed

  72. Well… let’s see.
    I see bubbly as two different things. In some ways, it means focused, and in others in means awesome. But, under the [special] circumstances, being focused is the same thing as being awesome. So, I’d say something like FOCUSED, or CLEAR, or THRILLING.

    And bogus is simpler. To me, it means something like UNCOOL. Possibly, from a Prettie’s stand point, it could even be something like TACKY.
    Yeah, I like tacky.
    So that’s what I think about your terms. Hope I helped :]]

  74. bubbly is simply a positive word and bogus in negative. You use adjectives to describe uglies and pretties.. maybe there is a way to just shorten negative and positive in chinese. “That movie was so neg!”

  75. oh i thought of another one
    bubbly is just being exited and anxios yah
    that was it
    ah bogus
    like boring whaever theres no point
    IDK

  79. he probably only read the first 20 or 30 or so. then stopped and told the lady. yepyepyep.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  80. its been a long time since i commented but i think that bubbly and bogus would just be a mind turning use of the term… wordplay, it would be odd to hem like pretty-making and happy-makings was to new readers

  81. okay here i go
    1 my mom is an author and translater so i understand how hard it must be for her and i am going to help as much as i can.
    Bogus-ridicouls, stupid, crazy, no need
    Bubbly- cool, gentle, kinda clearer
    just incase
    icy- sharp
    thats all i got
    kiss kiss
    Tali
    Me i’m tali
    she she’s Tally
    weird

  83. my away message on AOL is “I’m probably sneaking into New Pretty Town right now. Be back after I talk to Bethany (read Uglies by Scott Westerfeld if you have no idea what this means)”

    isnt it awesome!?!?!

  84. ok and bubbly is kind of an understatement of icy… bubbly is just a muddled, fogy version and if you are “bubbly” eough you acn break thrugh the fog

  85. Hmmmm….
    I already posted. I’m thinking the Chinese people need to make up their own word for bubbly because the word changes meaning throughout the story. it starts out as a happy feeling, then is clear headed, and then means completely free of pretty-mindedness.
    So, some Chinese person needs to get themselves some creativity and make up a similar word.
    With your approval, Scott. of course

  86. I think that Bogus means something like; Lame, or rediculous.
    Bubbly means “cool, adreneline pumping, exciting, icy”

    i am half german, half american, and i constantly see how hard and difficult it is to get the same sentance structure for each language. I saw it a great deal in the “twilight series” the words and their meanings are much less clever sounding in german, like the same level as a young child, while the american books could well be read by older readers. i thought it was sad how there is no real way to find the same level of beauty in each language; how somethings have to be changed because they are not the same. (kind of like the uglies, no?)

  87. post again Scott-la! this post is getting boring and theres only 994487 (multiple of 13) seconds left til EXTRAS! theres not much time for obsessive posting!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 🙁

  89. I’m back!

    Bubbly: for things: cool, interesting, fashionable. For people: sharp, ummm, like, ummm, ‘sensing everything’… and yes, its like champagne.

    Bogus: well, i understand people do actually say bogus in the real world in America, but in a slightly different context. well, bogus means: uncool, lame, unfashionable (which is really, really bad if you’re a pretty), and it is only used for things.

    Of course the meaning changes throughout the book, but the word shouldnt.

    It would be quite cool if, in chinese, the words bubbly and bogus could be the same word (with different accents), or sound slightly similar.

    Zaijan.(chinese for goodbye)

    (no, i’m not chinese)

  91. Haha. Easy.
    Bogus- an absolute pile of crap, “where the HECK did you get THAT from” word, and
    Bubbly- happy, peppy, excited.
    I love the books! Keep writing!

  92. Bubbly is an adrenaline rush. Like just when you reach the top of the rollercoaster or when your sky diving. Its the sense of excitement admist that of fear. Something that gets you pumped.

    Bogus is the exact opposite of bubbly. Its boring, its dull. Its your calculus math teacher who talks like Ben Stein. Bogus is….just really really uncoolish.

  93. just to clarify maroon’s question on if there’s any chinese word for cool and yes, there is. the way of pronouncing is just about the same in my opinion.

    bubbly is just like some others said, the feeling when you get to the top of roller coaster. the moment when you just woke out of the daze and you get clear headed.

    bogus: fake, not real.

  95. It seems that no matter what group the characters are in “bubbly” is viewed as a good thing and represents a person conforming with what the people around them view as cool. When someone has the lesions it’s like it means that they accept them strive only live up to the standards of pretty town. If they dont have the lesions it starts to mean that they are nonconformist and chose to fight the systme. If a person ends up being “bogus” they start loosing face and become loserish, no matter what group they are in.

  100. Bubbly, I think, feels like … like when you’re really, really, really sugarhigh, and someone just said something WAY crazy, but somehow it all makes sense and if it doesn’t you somehow know it’s not worth listening to.

  101. I guess I agree with the rest, that bubbly is an adrenaline rush. I can only say in terms of my stories it’s when it’s three AM and I’m extremely sugarhigh but I’m writing because suddenly it makes sense, because the extreme clarity – literally that is – is something unfamiliar to us as we is quite myopic.

    ~Cat-kha and her evil twin (that is when she’s not being the evil twin, like the fates in the Chronicles of Prydain) Cat-sha.

  102. bubbly: exciting, fun…

    Bogus: crazy talk, …

    yeah, all that comes to mind… but hey, we have mass band 2moro!!! woohoo!!!!! go
    DEER PARK!!! i can’t wait till extras!!! woohoo!!!!!

  103. to me, bubbly means something that’s totally fun, and makes your heart beat faster. Bogus means dumb,boring, makes you want to go to sleep. Can’t wait until Tuesday!

  104. omg tuesday is almost here! Bubbly means something that gets your adrenaline going, and your heartbeat going way faster than normal.
    Bogus means something that’s stupid, sucks, or is really boring.

  106. well i think its pointless for me 2 write anything now because i totally agree with all of u
    luv specials

    Peace

  107. well

    Bougus is kinda a word that means.. Gay, Retarted like Bad

    Like Totally Bogus, Bogus rain.

    Bubbly Would be Like Good minded. Like Ugly Again. Thinking Clearly

  110. bubbly means exciting, thrilling and if it’s past tense then it’s rememberable

    bogus means pointless and senseless, silly and kinda stupid

    I hope i helped!!!!!

    and by the way i LOVE the cover to the complex Chinese version!!!!

  111. Bubbly: amazing, awesome, sweet, something that makes you want to see your friends and have a good laugh
    Bogus: boring, dull, something so stupid you don’t even want to think about it

  112. Scott Sensei~
    I might be able to fly to brooklyn new york for your appreences I really hope I can I wish you would come to utah it would make me sooooo happy!

    Ashley-wa
    p.s. PLEASE e-mail me! pepper1228@hotmail.com

  113. Scott-La~
    I am your number one fan and all I want you to do Is come to utah!!!!!

    I love your books so much I have about 50 more pages of the extras please scott or Mr.Westerfeld please please please come to utah or e-mail me at pepper1228@hotmail.com !!!

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