I kind have had...

[nq:1]"when i arrived there i kind've had the opinion that most guys did;[/nq]
Wow, that's sort've like Hypercorrective TCE.

[nq:1]"when i arrived there i kind've had the opinion that most guys did; you know, that these are the most ... what i thought when i got there. but serving at Abu Ghraib i got a chance to find out differently."[/nq]
Must of left the Fowler's at home. My wife's boss today spoke of going from "the supreme to the ridiculous".

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:1]That's what i thought when i got there. but serving at Abu Ghraib i got a chance to find out differently."[/nq]
Aside from your main topic, which others have covered, "find out differently" is an error that deserves comment because it's an example of hypercorrection. Good English would be "find out different", unless the writer does actually want to refer to the manner in which he or she

[nq:2]That's what i thought when i got there. but serving at Abu Ghraib i got a chance to find out differently."[/nq]
[nq:1]Aside from your main topic, which others have covered, "find out differently" is an error that deserves comment because it's ... finding out. Things like "find out differently" and "look badly" are examples of Miss Thistlebottom's good intentions gone dreadfully wrong.[/n

[nq:2]"when i arrived there i kind've had the opinion that ... Abu Ghraib i got a chance to find out differently."[/nq]
[nq:1]Must of left the Fowler's at home. My wife's boss today spoke of going from "the supreme to the ridiculous".[/nq]
Aren't they frequently the same thing?

Bob Lieblich
Consider the Supreme Court, for example

[nq:1]"when i arrived there i kind've had the opinion that most guys did; you[/nq]
Finally something clicks. Since people are supposed to write, if they say it at all:
"I kind of had to do it"
then could be the cause of why we've also seen,
"I would of done it"
I hadn't really thought of the confusion as going in both directions.

Bring on "kinda, sorta, woulda," etc.,