>the fashion was to start every second sentence with grundsätzlich (=basically)....I managed to keep from screaming ...

I used to have a boyfriend who started most sentences with "basically" and end them with ... "and such". I didn't manage to keep from screaming. He didn't last.

Other fashionable words around that time were:
timewise, workwise ... everythingwise.

My current pet peeve is "enjoy" with nothing after it. What am I meant to enjoy? At least adding "it" would give me a clue.