Please do not say "definitely" when you mean "certainly". They are NOT the same thing. Everyone (even Google) seems to think that they mean pretty much the same thing; but I disagree. My argument is the following:
"Definitely", I think, means "by definition". When a girl says: "I'm definitely going to Josh's party tonight!", she's expressing herself imprecisely! She is not going to the party "by definition". What she is really expressing is her willingness to attend the party, and with that, the high probability of that event happening. But it is not true "by definition". It will become true because she wants it to become true. So really, she is ascertaining the fact that this event will occur (her attending the party). A more precise way to express this, then, is "I'm certainly going to Josh's party tonight!".
And this is, of course, just my own personally-biased, etymologically-based argument.
And at the creation time of this entry, I also had another word which I was going to present here. But it's been about a month since then, and I forgot it. I present my apologies.
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