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Ty navernoe lobotryas, blya!

J/k. Just testing out my Russian.

Chomsky, I think we've had a breakthrough.



Understandability has no bearing on the definition whatsoever. The definition has to do with the different categories of variation that Russian...

And to further reinforce or clarify my words, there is no agreement as to what actually constitutes a dialect much less a langauge. We've spawned so many subcategories off these two ill-defined...

It's all ultimately a matter of definition. People simply haven't found a good set of rules for classifying language variation. Languages are ultimately too amorphous to demarcate so starkly.

But...

I'm sure "dialect" could be used loosely to subsume argots, it's a very generalized term that has no real meaning at the level of the nitty gritty other than "variant."

Mirriam Webster, in fact,...

In "Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage" Derek Offord and Natalia Gogolitsyna maintain that there are three broad categories of dialects within Russian --

1. The Northern Dialects (North...

There are dialects in every language. In fact, Russian, Slovene, Czech, Sorbian, Ukranian, Bulgarian, Belorussian, Polish, etc all ultimately began as dialects of Proto-Slavonic in the same way that...