Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

Quoting Paul Burgess <paul@...>:

> And speaking of elephantine memories, which have also
> come up in this thread, back at age 13, in 1970, I
> coined the article "mna" just as I was walking in the
> side door of the small horse barn out in our back
> yard...
Some day or other, hopefully after Betelgeuze goes supernova, someone of
you'll trigger a memory so strange that I die.

Anyone remember that Telenzh's indefinite article _ez_ is cognate to
Tairezazh's and Steienzh's identical-looking definite ones? I just remembered
that back in the hazy beginnings of Tairezazh, when it was still
called "Terranian" and had just acquired cases, _ez_ was the indefinite
article and _ag_ (now expunged completely form the fictional timeline) the
definite one. Hm, strictly speaking I think the article change came slightly
later than the name change, but it's still back in 1997 or so.

                                                          Andreas