How is Kinda to be used?

The other day my daughter was explaining how her brother had hit his head. Rather than being simple with the explanation it was a long drawn out story. Something like this:

Well,... Joshie was playing with Superman, and I was the princess, and we were trying to get on the boat so the Tigers would not get us. He "pushded" me and I told him not to, and then I punched him, but when he was jumping on the bed Buzz Lightyear got under his foot, and he fell off the bed... and he kinda hit his head... ...

Ok... all I asked her was how he hit his head, and where, and it turned into an entire story like the Star Wars Saga. But then it occured to me,... She said he "kinda" hit his head. How do you Kinda hit your head?

So I started thinking about the word Kinda. Compliments of the "Urban Dictionary" the word Kinda is short for Kind of or Sort of. So I came back to my original thought, how do you use the word Kinda in a sentence. I know you cannot kinda hit your head. Either you hit it or you don't. you cannot kinda: die, snore, eat, throw, fart, etc... There are several things that the word kinda in front of it makes not sense at all. If you are a gamer you may be kinda away, meaning you are close by, but may not reply asap. Or you can be kinda bored, not real bored, but enough that you want to find something to do.

At any rate, my daughter using the word for her brother hitting his head on the bed, was just not the best use for the word kinda, but it was rather comical that it was used cause it got me to thinking of the many times that word is used and does not really make sense in the sentence or statement it is being used in.


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