t-style

— In a formal setting with an unknown papālagi visitor, a Samoan would be expected to use the formal t'''-style, but Ali’imalemanu started his performance in k-style and then switched over to t'''-style after a few minutes. Later on when he knew me better he mixed the two styles when he told me stories (and, of course, always used the k-style when we talked together with no recorder on, no matter what the subject was).