Learn English Vocabulary: kind of, sort of, type of, style of...

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Hi. James from engVid.
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This is my style of magazine; it gives me a lot of information, and the type of information
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I get from it is sort of cool.
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Now, I've used three terms or phrases: "sort of", "kind of", "style of" that you may not
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be familiar with; or if you are familiar, you don't truly understand.
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My job today is to tell you the difference between the individual words: "kind", "sort",
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"style", and "type"; what it means when you put "of"; what the slang meaning "of"; and
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how you can use it.
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I have a complicated drawing on the board, but I'll help you understand it in a second.
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And by the time we're done, you'll be able to use these phrases like a native speaker.
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Okay, so let's go to the board.
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First thing, E: "What are these types of words?"
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The first thing E will tell you is, well, first of all, they're different types of words
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so we can't say they're adjectives, they're this, this, and this.
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Each word has its own meaning, and sometimes they have two.
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I'm going to go to the board now and start working on that with you.
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All right?
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So let's get on this side.
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So, let's look at the first one: "kind".
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"Kind" is a word you've probably heard before.
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"She is a kind woman.", "He has a kind face."
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And we mean nice and friendly.
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Now, you might not be aware that it also is a noun, as in category.
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If you look over here: What is "category"?
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It is people or things that have something in common; they share together.
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Okay?
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Like music.
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Music can be jazz, blues, classical, rock - they're in the category of music, not movies,
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because they're all types of, you know, instruments and people singing.
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So when you say: "What type of or kind of music do you like?"
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We're saying: "What category?
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Is it jazz?
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Is it rock?" because they all share music together, but there's something specific with
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each genre or grouping, so we say: "kind of", and that tells us what category.
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And the next one we're going to talk about is "style".
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Now, some of you like my style, right?
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When we say "style", we say way of doing something, that's his style.
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So, some people like Michael Jordan, when he used to throw a ball he'd have his tongue
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out - that was his style.
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Not many NBA athletes do that, but he would, so you knew when Michael went: "Ah", he was
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about to jump and throw it.
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Appearance, like my appearance.
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I love superheroes so I'm always wearing...
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Not always, but a lot of time wearing superhero clothing or costumes.
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And those of you who know me know I love Batman.
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So, when you talk about someone's style, you talk about their general appearance; what
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they wear regularly.
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Okay?
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Or their way of doing something, like I said, Michael Jordan.
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We also use it for elegance, which means sophisticated, not common, above average.
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Usually people say elegant people have money, but it's not the case.
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It just means they have a certain way about them that makes them special, and people like
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it and respect it; to be elegant.
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But "style" also means...
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It's also a verb, as in to design.
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So when you design or make something in a specific way, it's that style.
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So if it's in the classical style, it's made like the classics.
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If it's in the modern style, it's made like modern things, like all white furniture.
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Okay?
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Once we add "of", and you notice I added "of" to "kind of" to talk about category, once
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again, we get a noun.
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Right?
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So we go: "kind of", we become a noun...
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We can use it as a noun as well.
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Right?
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"Kind of" from grouping.
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Same thing, people or if things are together.
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So if you say: "What style of music do you like?" it's similar to saying: "What kind
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of music do you like?"
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Okay?
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The "of" brings these things together to give them something common or puts them in a given
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category, you might say.
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Why am I teaching you this?
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To go back again, because a lot of times we say this when we want to talk about what groupings
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go together and preferences.
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There's a little bit more to it, which I'll get back to afterwards, but as long as you
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understand that "kind" with "of" and "style" with "of" are similar that they talk about
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category.
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What's the next one I'm going to go to?
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Well, let's go to "type".
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Typing: "Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch", now, you do that on the computer.
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It's an old...
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It's almost an old-fashion word, people don't say: "I'm typing at the computer."
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We used to have "typewriters", so "write" and "type" would go together because instead
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of using your hand, you would press the buttons and it would...
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They would go up on ink, so you would typewrite inside of handwrite, and we literally said:
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"Did you typewrite the letter or did you handwrite it?"
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Now you type, but you just say: "I'm going to put in the computer", or: "I'm going to..."
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and you forget to use the word "type it", because it's not necessary.
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But typing as an action or a verb, but once again...
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I said "once again" for, like, the fifth time; however, when you put "type" with "of", you
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get category again, so you can say...
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Remember I talked about music?
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"What style of music?
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What kind of music?"
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You can say: "What type of music?" and they all have the same meaning, which is: Tell
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me the category.
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Notice I didn't put "category" here, because "style" when it's used doesn't really have
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that category feeling; it needs "of" to make it a category.
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But you'll notice the other three things I will talk about will use the noun form category.
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Okay?
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You have category in them as a noun form, and "of" just makes it stronger.
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The last one I want to talk about is "sort".
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"Sort" means to fix a problem.
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If you have a problem with your bills and I go: "I'll have to sort out these bills later",
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it means: "I need to fix this problem."
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Okay?
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So, my friend, Mr. E, was drunk and I had to sort him out.
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Well, he had a problem with drinking so I had to fix that problem.
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Another meaning for "sort" is to organize.
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So, if you organize the pens...
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Let's say I have some markers.
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Now I need to sort them out; they're all messed up.
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I will sort them out and put the black markers with the black markers, the blue markers with
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the blue markers - you get the idea.
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That means to organize and put into groups.
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But the noun form of this is-dunh-de-de-dunh-category.
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And, once again, we add: "of".
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That's why I put these all up in green, because when you see it like this, you'll notice that
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even though "style" doesn't have a category in its noun, adding "of" makes it a category.
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And a lot of times Canadians will talk about that.
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"What sort of food?
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What sort of...?" because they're trying to say: "Give me an idea of the grouping that
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you prefer or like, or don't like."
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Okay?
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Now, here's where the twist comes.
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Sometimes...
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See?
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I put "category" for this, this is like number one.
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Add "of", it means: What category, what grouping are things together?
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But sometimes when people say: "sort of" and "kind of" they're being inexact.
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-"Did you enjoy the party that you went to?"
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-"Sort of.
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Kind of."
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In this case it means slightly, not that much.
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Notice that I didn't use "type" and I didn't use...
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I didn't use "type" and "style".
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I went backwards for a second.
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Because in this one, like typing on a keyboard has nothing really to do with just basic category,
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right?
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Or being nice and friendly, or organizing.
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And "style", as I said, has no category in its categories.
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So we usually just use these two.
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And it's not "soft of", by the way, it's: "sort of".
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I put "soft".
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In case you're wondering: "What is 'soft'?"
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I don't know, it doesn't exist.
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It's "sort of", okay?
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We use "sort of" and "kind of" to talk about almost exact opposites.
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You can say: "Mr. E was sort of angry...
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Was kind of angry that we spent all our money on comic books."
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Told you I love comics.
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In this case it doesn't mean slightly; it means he was rather, or fairly, or very angry.
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Okay?
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Now, you can use either one of them and you can use it in its exact opposite.
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"The food was slightly...
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Was sort of hot, sort of spicy."
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It means slightly spicy.
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Or you could say: "Oh, that food was kind of spicy."
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It means rather or really.
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Funny enough, it has the exact same meaning, it depends on the context, so you have to
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be careful and look at the person as they're speaking to get the context.
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But in these cases when it's an inexact use of language, you will only be using: "sort
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of" and "kind of".
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We don't say: "type of" and we don't say: "style of", because that literally talks about
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groups, organizing in groups and it's limited to that; while "sort of" and "kind of" can
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be used to talk about inexact language.
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Cool?
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All right.
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I've got one more to do for you where I'm going to teach you something that's more slang,
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so instead of saying: "sort of", people say: "sorta", "kinda".
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I'll tell you what that means, and then of course, we'll do our quiz.
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Hope you like the lesson because we're going to be back in a second.
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[Snaps]
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Okay, we're back.
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So, I just wanted to, before I go on, I want to show you something that's a bit of slang
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using "sort of" and "kind of".
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I think I might have showed you that when we talked about "sort of" or "kind of" it
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can be vague or inexact language, like: fairly, vaguely, slightly.
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Now, there's one more, there's a contraction where we take the "of" and we make it an "a"
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sound, so it becomes: "sorta", "kinda", and when we say that...
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So, here, the shortened form of "sort of" and "kind of" is: "kinda" and "sorta", and
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sometimes it means: No.
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It's not slightly or vaguely, or you know, or fairly; it actually means: No.
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I'll give you an example.
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The mother comes to her son and goes: "Hey, son, did you clean the house?" and the son
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goes: "Sorta."
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It means: No, he didn't do it.
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He might have done something, but not really, no.
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All right?
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-"Do you have my money for me?"
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-"Kinda."
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You don't have my money.
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Okay?
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I don't care what you say, that "kinda" meant you don't have it, and I'll go: "What do you
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mean, kinda?
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It's either yes or no."
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And they'll probably go: "Well, no, but..." and then that's when that big "but" comes
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in.
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All right?
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So, that's to give you just another...
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A further understanding of these types of phrases, and the phrases, you know: "kind
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of", "type of", "sort of", "style of", and how we can also take that, shorten it for
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slang to mean: "No", or we could give a little bit of information about something, or say
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things belong in a given category or a sort of...
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I said it.
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They belong in a category.
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So, I want to use these expressions.
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Oh, no!
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This doesn't work so well when I actually don't write the words up there, so why don't
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you help me?
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I've got the expression or the words up here.
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I'm going to put some words.
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I'm going to put: A, B, C, D, E. Okay?
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I'm going to randomly put them up there, and see if you can figure out where they go.
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So, as I write, I want you to try and figure out: Which one would go in what place?
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And I'm going to come back and then quiz you on it.
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Okay?
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I think you've got it.
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Okay, so you've had time to think about it, and now let's see just how good you are at
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it.
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So, what do you think it goes to number one?
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"Did you __________ it on the computer?
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Did you __________ on the computer?"
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Remember I told you this is kind of old-fashion?
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Because, for instance, nowadays we say something like: "I'll send you a text", or: "I wrote
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an email", but you don't actually write it; you type it in the computer.
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So it's a bit difficult because we don't use it, but you kind of have to know this word
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anyway, but: "type".
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You type it on the computer.
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Okay?
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T-y-p, type it on the computer.
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Sorry.
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The computer.
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Next: "What __________ do you prefer when it comes
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to clothing?"
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What, something?
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That's right: "What style".
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Remember we talked about appearance?
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And clothing is appearance, so you're talking about the style of the clothing.
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You're doing pretty well.
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Let's do number three: "She is a very __________ woman."
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That's right: "kind".
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We said: "kind" or "nice", all right?
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"Kind" means nice, she's a very nice woman; kind woman.
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Now number four: "Can you __________ out these things into
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proper groups?"
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Groups, categories, I put "sort".
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Remember we said organize into groups?
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So we talk about "sort" was the verb for organizing into groups.
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Now, I have one more for you.
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It's a two-parter, so it might be tough, but I kind of helped you with it before, so I'm
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just going to stand over here so you don't know the answer, but I'm sure you could figure
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it out.
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"Did you do all of your homework?"
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It was a lot of homework.
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And little Billy says: "__________, I didn't understand all of it."
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Well, if you said: "Kinda", you got it right.
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"Kinda" which means: No.
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"I didn't understand all of it, so I couldn't do all the homework."
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Just because as soon as he said: "I didn't understand it", so you know he couldn't have
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done all the homework.
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Right?
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So: "Kinda" means: No.
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It's another word, as we talked about here, slang for no.
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Listen, I hope you understood the language.
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You know, I sort of like you because you guys are really cool.
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And, well, I kinda don't have anymore...
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Well, if you would say if I had more time, any more time, I'd go: "Kinda", which means:
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No, I don't.
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It's time for me to go.
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So, with...
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Mr. E and I are going to say good bye, but before I do, I need you to subscribe somewhere
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around here, and then I want you to go to: www.eng as in English, vid as in video.com
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(www.engvid.com) and go do the quiz that follows this, and go check out the other wonderful
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teachers we have.
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Anyway, always good and a pleasure to be with you.
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And being the kind of person I am, I gots to go.
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See you.
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