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There are no specific objective criteria on what are different languages and what -- different dialects (although I can't imagine any reasonable criterion that would allow call Russian and Ukrainian...

Не только видел я местечко "на севере", я еще и сам оттуда :-). У нас маленький город - это именно "мЯстеТко" (произносим со звуком "я" и такой вот как бы средний между "ч" и "т" звук).[/quote]
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Actually, one of the most unique things about modern Russian imo is the lack of dialectal variation. Of course there is some, but compared to many other languages -- such as English, German,...

it's a common misbelief here in Poland that they would understand all of the Slavonic languages: Russian, Czech, Ukrainian and what not. Once they are confronted though, they change their mind...

Well, in the same way French, Spanish, Romanian and Italian are dialects of Latin, perhaps so.[/quote]Speakers of Romanian will not understand speakers of Spanish. With Russian and Ukranian it's a...

Well, in the same way French, Spanish, Romanian and Italian are dialects of Latin, perhaps so.

True. But JJ and myself, both being native speakers of Russian, can see the BS in your theory because it states things that contradict today's Russian language usage which we, being native speakers...

First, Lampada, is a word 'idiot' more polite or apropriate in this discussion than the word I used in the end of my post - a 'zombie'?


Second, one of cheat methods to win a discussion is saying...

Scotcher, your irony is out of place here. You cannot see the whole picture, becouse of your weak knowlage of Russian language and culture. What would you say if anyone from Honduras tried to discuss...

First, Lampada, is a word 'idiot' more polite or apropriate in this discussion than the word I used in the end of my post - a 'zombie'?

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I agree, there is too much censorship on this...

Yes, these roots are still preserved in other Russian words, so?
Surely some (Edited. L.) periodically invent crankpot theories that the Earth is flat, or that Einstein was wrong, or that Ukrainian...

A nice list, which clearly illustrates the fact that modern Russian (unlike, say, Ukrainian or Polish) is largely an artificial language, into which a large number of Bulgarian (and later French)...

Last year I read a couple of articles about Ukrainian, so by one of them this language was just southern dialect of Russian but in 20's of the last century bolshevicks decided to make it as a...