Re: A sample of Tiki vocabulary

Jeffrey Henning wrote:

> It's great to see another fauxlang!  Especially a "100-year old" one.
>
> So we should call this your con Tiki? :-)
>
> I also like the agent/patient grammar.  Is it fluid-S, split-S, something else?
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> - Jeffrey
Ha! I suppose I could sneak in a couple words from Rapanui...

I'm not clear on the difference between fluid-S and split-S. In any
case, I don't suppose Dr. M would have had the linguistic knowledge to
be consistent about it. I suspect the "agent" case originated as some
case that could have marked the subject of a causative verb, and later
Dr. M realized that if the subject is marked in this way, the verb
doesn't need a special causative form.