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Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, March 14, 2003, 20:31
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