Russian language has no dialects.
Blatnoy dialect = criminal slangThere also exists, of course, the blatnoy dialect
Yes, exactly so. And if you speak "standard" or "TV" Russian you can be sure nobody is laughing at you. And don't mix Belorussian or Ukrainian language with Russian. They are just different languages, not dialects. Russians often even can't understand Ukrainians or Belorussians. But Belorussians or Ukrainians CAN understand Russians... not because they are dialects, because most Belorussians and Ukrainians SPEAK the Russian language as international in USSR.if a non-native starts using highly regionalized words in the wrong region and rather inconsistently, he'll probably be laughed at
Not exactly so. Yes, communists did achieve nearly 100% literacy. They taught the people to read and write, but Russians already spoke the same language before communism.The communists had its faults but they did achieve one great thing - nearly 100% literacy among the population of the USSR. Everyone can read and thus speaks the same language.
I don't think so. It makes a difference between what you (or "foreign professors") think about the Russian language and what native speakers know as native speakers. The sense, not the form. It's very important to see the difference.It seems you harbor some fairly disturbing elitism/nationalist-chauvinism/linguistic fascism with reference to "foreign professors" of the language (not to mention colloquial or rough manners of speaking).
It's ridiculous. "Lobotryas" is not "russki mat". It means just a "lazy man who doesn't think about his future". "Blya" is a short form for "blyad'", "blyad'" means "a bitch".Originally Posted by Trzeci_Wymiar