Why all the pidgin French?

Like millions of other graduates of public high school, Dirtbunny took French. She also minored in it in college. She never got fluent and has now forgotten most of it. However, she remembers enough to pepper her conversation with the occasional French II level vocabulary word because it makes her feel smart and worldly. This impresses no one. The ignorant think she's a pretentious snot. The sophisticated think she's a pretentious idiot poser. Both are correct.