Mark: Oh no, you’re not dragging me into your wretched Caucasian feuds. I know how things are done up there.
As for your sainted Mesrob and his alphabetical endeavors:
This was probably an older alphabet to which Mesrop [sic] merely added vowels; but, in order to pacify the Greek ecclesiastics and the emperor Theodosius the Less, the Armenians concocted a story that it had been divinely revealed.
— Entry under “Armenian Language and Literature” in the 1911 Britannica
As they say in Tbilisi: “The buzzing of the flies does not make them bees”






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