There is nothing that I hate more, than when people use the word 'basically'.
This is something that has plagued me my entire schooling, especially when it comes out of people in my year level / class / age group etc.
When someone starts to answer a question and starts it with 'Basically -', I want to rip their tounge out the back of their head and strangle them with it.
Don't act as if you're dumbing down your answer for all us simpletons who aren't on the same intellectual plane as you, because you are so smart and fantastic and have so much inside knowledge to life.
This annoyed me at university the other day when I had a guy try to tell me that 'Basically, the movie is a social commentary on the socialist regime of America.'
It's quite obviously not, it's a movie about aliens - that has Denise Richards fannying about in a short skirt and naked people in unisex showers, and you are quite obviously a banana with too much time on your hands. Time that is used to look into non-existent meanings in movies and then try to simpify it for all of us people who are too 'basic' to understand this.
I did say that too him. But might have added also: 'Basically, I think that you're on crack.'
julia.
Actually, it is thought that the outbreak of alien invasion type films in America was a reflection of the fear of Communist invasion that swept the nation in the forties/fifties. However I'm pretty sure that they were over it in the nineties so you are probably right about that particular movie! He probably just thought he would wow you with his 'knowledge' :)
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