• Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I hope a 1,000 yrs from now this same finger rock resurfaces on the interwebs 6.6.0.6 and scares the crap outta some cyberpunk kids cause they found it on some trail.

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        3 months 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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          3 months 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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            3 months 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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              3 months 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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                3 months ago

                What we say and how it’s written are two very different things.

                In Swedish we have plenty of words that are pronounced identically, but they are spelled differently.

                English is not much different. Take “you’re” and “your”. The pronounciations are almost identical, and in many dialects they are identical.