Basically...

Personally, I think I have a pretty firm grasp on the wild world of adverbs, others simply do not. Does anyone else get annoyed when people use a word all too often or altogether in the wrong context? It kills me when people use 'basically', 'actually' or 'like' to the point of exhaustion:
Me: "How was the movie?"
Annoying overuser: "Actually, we got there late and missed most of the previews but basically I got the idea of what's coming out - like the last one actually looked pretty good, but the movie itself basically sucked. I actually left half-way through and got stuck in traffic for like an hour, basically went nuts."
What?!?! Can we all revisit elementary school and start incorporating more intelligent phrases into our vocabulary?
It's amazing that people actually talk like this. That's really all I wanted to say...basically.

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