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Can you kind of catch me up on what you see as your role in the company? - Fine tuning of the sentence’ parts

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I'm trying to understand precise meaning of all parts of the following sentence:

Can you kind of catch me up on what you see as your role in the company?

So, if it would me who compiled such a phrase, then it would be:

Can you catch me up on what you see your role in the company?

So, I can't recognise overtone of selected parts below:

Can you kind of catch me up on what you see as your role in the company?

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AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgFebruary 2022
This is very colloquial American English. Paraphrasing the sentence:

”Can you in short update me on what you think/believe your role in the company is.”

”kind of”

It doesn’t mean ”type of”. It could be translated as ”in short” or ”in summary”.

”as” is part of the grammatical construction:

”to see sth/sb as sth/sb/ (doing sth)” = ”to think/believe sb/sth (in future) is/would be/will be sth/sb/ (doing sth)”
  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgFebruary 2022
    @Torinos No worries!

    You sentence was deceptively simple. The words by themselves look very simple. However, there is also a formal complex grammatical construction.

    Also complicating things - mixing the highly informal usage of ”kind of” with that formal grammar.
  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgFebruary 2022
    Because the question is not only just about the present role in the company, but ascertaining what the person believes his/her future role will be and what form that would take.

    A question like ”What is your role in the company?” only would tell us the job title and nothing more.

    If I presented every short form question for each piece of information the questioner is trying to elicit in that sentence - that would be really wordy