Far be it from me to wish to start a language war. We have seen
what it can do in Belgium, between Flemish and Walloon.
Indeed, part of the irreconcileable differences in the former
Yugoslavia are attributable to the tension between Serbian - a
Roman character language - and Croatian, written in the
Cyrillic alphabet, albeit so very similar otherwise. However, since
it has been asserted that Quebecois and Hexagon are the same, I can
only do what I had hitherto purposely avoided, and doubtless should
continue to do, and reference French persons I know who refer to the
French used in Canada as "cradoc," and - worse - "degoulasse."
BTW, all the Alsatians of my generation prefer to speak
"Alsacienne," a Germanic dialect. This is not unpatriotic:
after all, from whence came Roget d'Lisle and the Army of the
Rhine?