Sunset Grill

XNeire: -- and at the valerie (mall) I found this blue dentist (new shirt), do you like it? And then we were gonna go to the canner (corner store) for incas (snacks) but --
Quinn: Miss Neire I think we're getting off topic again. Could you describe what you and your friends saw on Smithy Avenue? In plain English, please.
Neire: Oh, you mean the gnome (man) with the basin (house)?
Quinn: ... possibly. If you could --
Neire: That was jenny-all (brilliant)! He had the basin --
Quinn: -- use a little less --
Neire: -- tied to a pondy yellows (bunch of bikes) and --
Quinn: -- slang...
Neire: -- this bam (woman) next to me me fainted and --
Quinn: Your witness.
Riley: No thanks, you can keep her.
Niere: It was deuce bore famous (best day ever)!

When last we saw.... Quinn - Riley

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February 11, 2009

One of the unforseen consequences of the legislation banning French was how attractive this would make the language to a certain class of teenager. After a brief spate of speaking actual French (and being thrown out of school), the bored and mildly rebellious invented Fancy, a slang language that involved replacing actual French words with loosely rhyming English terms -- usually limiting themselves to nouns and adjectives, as here. That this is utterly incomprehensible to sane speakers of French and English alike is considered a feature, not a bug. For the terminally curious, here are Miss Neire's Fancy terms in order of appearance: galerie(mall); chemise neu (new shirt); dépanneur (corner store); en-cas (snacks); homme (man); maison (house); genial (brilliant/cool); bande de velos (bunch of bikes); femme (woman); mieux jour jamais (best day ever).