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does-%E3%82%86%E3%83%BC%E3%81%8B-mean):

> 見ず知らずの子供を助けるほど、お節介とゆーか、親切ってほどでもない。

I'm failing miserably to understand this sentence. Writing it less
colloquially we presumably get:

> 見ず知らずの子供を助けるほど、お節介というか、親切というほどでもない。

I understand ほど to mean "to the extent that/of" e.g. 昨日ほど暑くない = "to the extent
of yesterday, it's not hot" = "It's not as hot as yesterday".

My guess at a translation would be roughly:

> "I'm so meddlesome that I save strange children, or rather, I don't do it
> out of kindness".

but I feel that would be two separate sentences: " i.e. 見ず知らず子供を助けるほど、お節介だ =
"To the extent that I save strange children, I am meddlesome", and
"というか、親切というほどでもない" = "Or rather, to the extent that it is kindness, it is
not".

Something tells me I'm barking up the wrong tree.
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grammar particle-ほど
Meaning of XほどYほどでもない
> 「見ず知らずの子供を助ける **ほど** 、お節介{せっかい}とゆーか、親切{しんせつ}って **ほど** でもない。」

Conclusion first. The only reason that 「ほど」 is used twice is that this
sentence is fairly informal/colloquial. In more formal speech, it would rarely
be used twice in such a short sentence. The second 「ほど」 is the one that would
be dropped in more formal speech.

So, how does one know it is informal/colloquial? One knows by the use of 「ゆーか」
and 「って」 as you yourself seem to have noticed. 「ゆーか」 is indeed _very_
informal.

The last half of the sentence could have been formed instead as:

・「---、お節介とゆーか、親切って **わけ** でもない。」 or

・「---、お節介とゆーか、親切って **ゆーこと** でもない。」

> "I am not so meddlesome or rather "kind" as to go out of my way to help
> children I do not (even) know."
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