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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Thank you. It's things like this that serve as a reminder that, no matter how many kanji and vocabulary I may know, there are still times I'm going to get totally tripped up.
I suppose the お should have been a hint it was something being said to another person (hence the honorific prefix).
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I just realized that the question mark was outside of the quotation marks. In that case it may be a statement. "I'm mostly free."
This お is not the real honorific in either case. It's a playful kind of お that people sometimes use to sound comical and we even use it to say things about ourselves.
基本 probably mislead you as well. This is short for 基本的には （or ほとんどいつも） in very casual conversation. This usage has been in existence for only 10-15 years now. (= basically, most of the time, in principle)
You will often hear phrases like:
基本ＯＫ
基本ダメ ＯＲ 基本ＮＧ
アタシ基本お肉ダメ
オレ基本自己中
No particles, no verbs, nothing.....
