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Thu 08 Aug 2009Attacks on the language are rising, basically
Words are regularly invented, mangled or forced from nouns into verbs, or vice versa, writes DAVID ADAMS
IT’S OFTEN the little things in life that can get to you. Take “basically”, for instance. I cannot be alone in having grown to detest the very sound of this word. It has become so annoyingly pervasive in the spoken language, you sometimes wonder if we are now incapable of relaying even the most mundane information without employing it. As in, “Basically, I was walking down the road”, or, “Basically, he was standing there”.
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