patois

“I went to prison so you won’t have to,” he declared, in a weird, highly caffeinated surfer patois.

For Green, one of the biggest challenges of a film like “One Love” was getting the patois language right and making it feel real without watering it down.

"Just the language and the patois needed such a huge amount of attention that a June start date was never going to happen."

Valdez conceived El Pachuco as the embodiment of the outrageously stylish young batos he used to spot around town, who spoke a Cantinflas-meets-Raymond-Chandler patois called caló and jitterbugged at clubs from Boyle Heights to Bakersfield.

Capped with a fez, speaking some sort of French patois, Mitchell brings his own campy aura to the movie, including the portentous punchline: “Choice is a Western concept.”