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The next essay on "Radio Transmitting in a Snowstorm" titled "To Perceive the Words of Underst&ing" is one of the reasons every Armenian is now more than ever a "radio transmitting in a snowstorm", that is, the use of two different orthographies and the controversy surrounding the orthography of the post-Soviet Republic of Armenia. I make special reference to Khachatrian's "Orthography, State and Diaspora," which is a convenient repository of nearly all the specious reasons why the orthography was changed and why it cannot be restored. In 1899, the Armenian responsible for the change in Mesropian orthography in 1922 wrote that Armenians were "an illiterate and unschooled" people, despite the fact that Mashdots in 406 gave Armenia letters so that they could "perceive the words of understanding." In writing it I came to realize that Mashdots was not all that different from Manuk Abeghian, and the conclusions I come to might be startling to some. http://radiotransmittinginasnowstorm.blogspot.com/2013/01/to-perceive-words-of-underst.html