Difference between a language and a dialect

[bens_dad]

The UK and the USA both have army and navy, so how do they share a language (we don't even call them different dialects) ?

Same goes for these two plus Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and I believe for France and Canada ?

Comments

[armiphlage]

Well, Canadian English is not quite the same as either UK or USA English, different enough that Microsoft has a Canadian English setting.
And Quebecois and Acadian are nearly unintelligible to someone from France.

[crazyscot]

Sweet as! Nek minnit we were out in the wops so we took a smoko. She'll be right. It's hard yakka - can the scarfies handle the jandal? Yeah nah.