Comment on I might shit my pants just a little if I saw this

• Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, but in this context, “kind” have a different meaning so you can’t use the contracted informal version of “kind of”. It’s like instead of saying

  “oh how kind of you to hold the door for me”

  You say: “oh how kinda you to hold the door for me”

  It just doesn’t make sense.

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  • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What kinda shrooms are you on right now?

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    • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      By all means, tell me how I’m wrong. I’d love to know

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      • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s kinda like words have vastly different meanings depending on the context.

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      • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        its almost like language is subjective

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        you trippin’ bro? you sound kinda off

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    kinda is just another way to say “kind of”

    “How kind (nice) of you” and “My kind (sort) of people” are both appropriate uses of “kinda”. I hear it used more for the latter than the former, to be honest.

    Also, it’s casual language anyways, so why even try to bring grammar into it, much less while being so confidently wrong?

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    • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I see, so when you’re complimenting people you say “that’s kinda you”?

      Or would you say “that’s kind of you”?

      Feel free to say it out loud and let me know

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      • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Mighty kinda ya” would not be out of place where I live, no. A dated expression as a whole, maybe, but spoken with a casual flow, that’s how it comes out.

        I suppose one could also write it as “kind o’ ya” but “kind o’” is what is being truncated into “kinda”

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