I am informed, on very good authority (my buddy Bogdan) that long ago the Serbs were a gentle woodland folk of simple beliefs and childlike ways, trustworthy and tractable. Bad people drove them from their ancient homelands to the Balkan mountains where they fell in with the wrong crowd (I bet you can guess with whom). Since then they have spent their time drinking true necatar of the gods, domaca sljiva, practicing the most ancient form of Christianity, fighting Mohammedans and hanging out on mountains with Greeks. The Greeks, recognizing kindred lost souls, gave the Serbs an alphabet into which Greek may be EXACTLY translated. Thus, to this day, Church Slavonic is as precise a Christian theological language as Greek.
