# Okay, this just bugs me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Unrelated Discussion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/okay-this-just-bugs-me/60145 "2013-10-14T02:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![theTopo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/thetopo/32/1065_2.png) [@theTopo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/theTopo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/okay-this-just-bugs-me/60145/21 "2013-10-16T11:28:11Z")
> [@WildCat23](#): > > Compare French to Spanish. Or Italian to Romanian; they are all dialects of Latin, and one cannot understand one of the others clearly. Or High German vs regular German. Full of differences. I think you may be confused between the difference between a dialect and a language. French, Spanish, Italian etc. are all distinct languages that descended from Latin, which itself is a language. What actually defines a language is debatable but all of those mentioned are widely considered seperate languages and not simply Latin dialects. > [@WildCat23](#): > > Technically, I guess it might be, but there are really only a few changes. We have a few different words, and different accents, but it’s not really a dialect. That’s exactly what a dialect is. ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/okay-this-just-bugs-me/60145/22 "2013-10-16T13:43:22Z")
If you think there are only a few changes, you’ve never spoken to someone from Newfoundland. :wink: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/0/5/4/054ee19aa521b6320226a5f7ba522e7d9455c2b1.jpeg "A Newfoundland Language Lesson with Mark Critch, Candice Walsh and Travel Yourself") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqLuIXwsLDw) And these people were actually kind of understandable. Talk to one of the oldsters born and raised in a fishing village. ---
**Author:** ![Snafu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/snafu/32/1399_2.png) [@Snafu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Snafu)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/okay-this-just-bugs-me/60145/23 "2013-10-22T19:14:26Z")
> [@WildCat23](#): > > There are no dialects of English… Slang is a “dialect” … [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/okay-this-just-bugs-me/60145.md?page=1)