Ardith Hinton:   
      
   AH> A  male  friend  of ours, who was born in one of   
   AH> the ex-USSR countries, introduced us a few weeks   
   AH> ago  to his new girlfriend... born in another of   
   AH> the ex-USSR countries.  I hope this relationship   
   AH> lasts  because she & I liked each other from the   
   AH> start!  Anyway, she  mentioned  in  conversation   
   AH> that  the  Russian  language has no dialects.  I   
   AH> don't disbelieve it.  But as a native speaker of   
   AH> English  I  found  myself quite surprised by the   
   AH> idea, and as the sort  of  person  who  consults   
   AH> various  sources  I would also like to hear what   
   AH> *you* think.  :-)   
      
   Russian has dialects of course, but they don't  seem   
   as  disparate  as  those  of  English.  On the other   
   hand, read this one if you can:   
      
      http://tortuga.angarsk.su/unrar/dal__w07/d_govor.txt   
      
   That file is encoded in DOS-866, and I can help  you   
   with both encoding and translation.   
      
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