Quote Originally Posted by chaika
>There are NO dialects in Russian.
??? C'mon Ramil. At least give us broad ones like okan'e and akan'e! Or do you mean that жгёшь is just an error, not a dialectism?

Do you also mean that there are NO dialects in English either, because we are all speaking the same language?
Here is a true story. As some of you may remember, a while ago I was tranlating a cycle of TV shows (and posted here some audio and video scraps from these shows when I had trouble making out what people say). Well, the story of one of these shows took place in South Carolina. The locals were not exatly easy to understand, but one specific piece was completely baffling me. So I made an audio file, as usual, and started bugging my online English-speaking friends with request to help me understand it. It so happened that the first person I accosted was someone from northern US. She helped me a with certain phrases, but said she couldn't understand the rest if her life depended on it. I talked to a couple more people from USA and UK with the same (partial) success. But when I finally managed to find someone who had lived in the South for a long time, she gave me an exact word-for-word transcript without a moment's hesitation.

True story number too: the same cycle, different episode. This time, it was an UK guy (somehwere from up north) that I couldn't understand. This time around, it was a friend from UK who was able to help me where Americans failed.

True story number three: the Mad Max movie had to be dubbed into American English, because Americans could not understand the original Aussie sound track.

Do you still insist you all are actually speaking the same language? :P

Nothing like that could happen in Russia, by the way. I won't insists that we don't have dialectal differences (it all depends on one's definition of a dialect, after all), but even if we have dialects, they are less of a dialect than your dialects are