The polite padding does have meaning. It specifies the person is ONLY wondering and not also judging, or accussing, or assuming. That is to say, just is very explicitly specifying that wondering is to be understood as a pure wondering, in its most literal definition with any emotional or social or situational valences stripped.
Just wondering.
The polite padding does have meaning. It specifies the person is ONLY wondering and not also judging, or accussing, or assuming. That is to say, just is very explicitly specifying that wondering is to be understood as a pure wondering, in its most literal definition with any emotional or social or situational valences stripped.