Basically....

Basically - as defined by the dictionary:
1) In a basic way; fundamentally or essentially
2) For the most part; chiefly

Some of you who know me might believe that I have a problem with this word. That when it is uttered, I fly into an exhausting rage to which I will rant continuously for more time than anyone is willing to listen, specifically people who have heard it before. I'm here to say that this is just not the truth. This word, is just that, a word. I don't have any issues with this word, at all. The word itself has done nothing wrong, and I don't want to scrutinize it just because others are incapable of using it properly. That would be comparable to some idiot accidentally killing someone with a lawn-mower, and then the lawn-mower getting blamed for the incident - just not logical.

My long and drawn out explanation leads me to my very simple point; don't make a word apart of your regular vocabulary if you don't know how to use it. And as a side note, don't use a word for said reason, just to sound smart - you're shooting yourself in the foot, and after this post, you will be shoving your bludgeoned, bloody, dangling foot in your mouth.

I'm by no means a scholar, aside from Allakhazam.com. But the overuse of this word, and the overuse of incorrect use of this word is enough to drive me mad. An example of a correct sentence with the word 'basically' in it might be, "...His trip involved him getting kidnapped and tortured, so he basically went insane." See? I used the word to bring things down and sum them up. To take a longer story, and simplify it. Since most of the anger that stems from this subject is from a couple people I know in World of Warcraft, I will use a good and a bad example involving the game:

Correct, you're awesome:
"...he will turn and charge people randomly, but you don't have to worry about this, just stay where you are and the healers will get you. So basically, this is just a tank-n-spank."

Incorrect, die:
"Basically, when we start he will spawn these portals that shoot beams out to the boss that will buff him if they touch him. So basically we need to stand in them one at a time, to the people that we assigned to them."

Notice the difference? One of them needs to die and the other deserves a cookie. Now there are obviously different uses for the word, but the one that is misused the most is simplification. You don't sit there and explain something long and drawn out and slap 'basically' at the beginning of your sentence, you're a fucking dumbass and you should die by spiky-dildo. By not waiting a minute to use that word you're so god damned fond of, you are now an ignorant fool and thus have now succumbed to an anal penetration by way of a sharp and piercing dildo, congratulations.

That is all for now.