Originally Posted by glynda
Ok i've posted songs and had some tell me there are some words not to use in writing...like .....that, and, just..


But then there's a song somebody mentioned later in the thread called "A Little More Country Than That." Then there was "That's That" by Hugh Prestwood sung by Michael Johnson I think. I had an English professor (he was an American who taught English not a professor who was from England) who said that "the word "that" is the most useless word in the English language." Ever since then I've been OCD about that word. I wish he'd never said that.

Then there's "just" which is still used a lot. That would leave out Billy Joel's first massive hit, "Just The Way You Are." (Don't tell me "Piano Man" came first, just humor me.)

And "And I Love Her" etc, etc. Of course, Billy Joel and The Beatles were self contained acts LOL.

When it comes to the start of a line, I try not to use that no good "that" and "and" or "but" but I still wind up using them. I never heard about not using "just" but for some reason half the time I want to use "just" my fingers type out "used." I can't figure that out. It started happening about three years ago. It's like a mental block for me. My fingers just tend to type out "used" instead of "just."

Sometimes I'll use a word but when I try to sing it, it has a sound that is like a brick wall. I think it's referred to a lot of times as a hard consonant sound.


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