i think add nothing that hasn't been mentioned here...
"Literally" as in "I literally turned the air blue" no you didn't, unless you breathe ozone

"Basically" as in "basically I went the pub" you went the pub and you are padding your sentence with tautologies because you are stupid. Tautologies ride along in your sentences ilke junk DNA, adding nothing (see also "actually")

"You know" like David Beckham says 400 times in every interview. "yeah well you know I got the ball on the right you know and then I you know took a touch..." etc

David, it's pretty obvious you were dragged out of school at 10

Yourself/myself/ourselves. This is probably my top hate, it just sounds wrong. "John and myself went the pub" ugh

I'd like to defend a few....random, fail, chillax, my bad. I'm fine with them, I find them quite funny
(Darth Vodka, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:08, 3 replies)

I've been guilty of "basically" in the past
When I tried to stop I started using "err" instead, I came to the conclusion that my mouth goes faster than my brain and I need verbal filler while I finish thinking. I do flatter my self that I've avoided "literally" though, although probably not "y'know".
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:25, closed)

Well.. basically...
... some words are just verbal padding to "keep the channel open" while a new phrase is being formulated -- annoying but almost neccesary.
But... I do agree on "literally". "I literally jumped out of my skin!!!!" no, you fucking mong, you figuratively or, if you like, metaphorically jumped out of your skin -- which is a shame because if it happened literally you would have died a painful death.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:51, closed)

What happened to "um"?
Have we all had media training now, or something, so that we have to actually use actual words as actual padding in our actual speech?
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:22, closed)