Need help from a French speaker.

[JamesSavik]

Madam Malloy is the elderly matriarch of a family of Cajun (Acadian) fishing family. She can speak English perfectly well but in an effort to preserve their culture, she elects not to. She rules her little fiefdom with an iron will. One of the families fishing boats has come back with a zombie captured in its nets.

 

She has called the Sheriff but is studying the zombie when a deputy sheriff and National Guardsmen arrive.

 

The Deputy Sheriff is Mike Frasier.

 

I need help with the dialog. French dialog is italicized.

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Deputy Frasier says, "How are you Madam Malloy?"

 

Madam Malloy laughs and says, "Your Acadian is terrible Michael but I give you points for trying. I was just fine until the boys brought this thing home." She points at the zombie tightly bound in the metal mesh shrimp nets. "I've been studying him."

 

Frasier says, "Isn't that dangerous?"

 

Madam Malloy reveals a holstered .357 and says, "I'm far from helpless."

 

Frasier says, "I can see that. What have you learned?"

 

"This creature is not of the ocean or the swamp. He doesn't have any respect."

 

Frasier asks, "What do you mean he has no respect?"

 

"He doesn't respect holy symbols and you can point a gun right at him and it means nothing to him. It is animal and a particularly viscous one. There's one other thing."

 

Frasier says, "What is that?"

 

"He is trouble of the worst kind."

[Bleu]

I would have been happy to help but Cajun, as far as I can tell, is very different from France French.

[JamesSavik]

Acadian French is a dialect of French but I'm not trying to use it. In fact I'm not even sure that it is a written language. I think the use of French in a few lines of the story should provide the flavor that I'm looking for.