Okay, this just bugs me.

[theTopo]

@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.

[GregP]

If you think there are only a few changes, you’ve never spoken to someone from Newfoundland.

A Newfoundland Language Lesson with Mark Critch, Candice Walsh and Travel Yourself

And these people were actually kind of understandable. Talk to one of the oldsters born and raised in a fishing village.

[Snafu]

@WildCat23

There are no dialects of English…

Slang is a “dialect” …