How to animate text in Foundation 4 so it works in IE and other browsers

How to animate text in Foundation 4 so it works in IE and other browsers

I'm building a website using Foundation 4 and we need to animate some text
on the home page. I intended to use textillate
http://jschr.github.io/textillate/ BUT since Foundation 4 is loading Zepto
for browsers that support it, I found that only IE would run it. When I
tried to load the latest version of jquery in addition to Zepto, it broke
a bunch of Foundation stuff and therefore wouldn't run the textillate
scripts (since I was loading them after).
My question is, what would be the best way to handle this? Do I have to
write two functions to get this done -- one in Zepto and one in Jquery?
I'm really confused with this Zepto stuff. If it doesn't work in IE, why
is Zurb relying on it? Seems like all my clients use IE so I have to make
it work there too.