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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because he didn't say "I don't like the books"; he said "the books are crap". No disrespect to you, but if you're not a native English-speaker, you may perhaps not appreciate the enormous difference between the meaning of those two statements. The first is expressing a personal preference - nobody would argue with that. The second is stating an absolute fact about the value of them, and that's insulting.
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Harry T. I like most of your comments. Yes I am a Native English Speaker. But... to each their own on the argument in this thread. Off to drink a pint and read on my Gen3...with my cover intact...
hidari