Kinda ?

[Bruce Chapman & Barbara Carey]

Paul Hohensee wrote:
> "in a way" plus "somewhat", as in "it's kinda bad" == "in a way, it's 
> somewhat bad".
>
> On 3/22/10 7:02 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote:
>> Can somebody betray the sense of "Kinda" to me?
>>
>> -Ulf
>>
>>
>
a spoken contraction of "kind of" (similar meaning to sorta a 
contraction of sort-of)

nothing to do with children (kinder) although you might sometimes see it 
spelt that way too.

Bruce