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Originally Posted by HarryT
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,
I am also a native English speaker (real English not that British crap).
Anyway, while I agree that his phrasing was declarative, knowing he was talking about a book I took his statement to be subjective and not objective since there is no true rating of such for art. Beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all.
BOb