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<blockquote data-quote="bodhi" data-source="post: 3133748" data-attributes="member: 19770">No one has said otherwise.What has been said is that there's a difference between an individual saying &quot;it's good&quot; meaning they personally like it, and a critic saying &quot;it's good&quot; meaning it succeeds by the conventional standards of the form.Certainly, everyone is entitled to like what they like, or not like what they don't. And certainly, anyone who tries to insist that you're somehow wrong or inferior for liking something is being silly (or obnoxious).The point is that there are rules for art. And yes, they're only conventions agreed upon by scholars. But so is spelling. Someone who insists that &quot;spoon&quot; is spelled &quot;spuun&quot; is just wrong, at least until the consensus changes. Because it could (and eventually, will). Language changes over time, spelling changes over time, and yes, art changes over time. But, by the standards of early 21st century English, it's spelled &quot;spoon&quot;. If you prefer &quot;spuun&quot; or &quot;spune&quot; or &quot;spooon&quot;, that's fine. But there is no final authority on the &quot;correct&quot; spelling. It's what we as English speakers agree is the correct spelling.You're saying that the spuun-liker is being condemned as morally/spiritually/intrinsically (I'm not sure what the right word is) wrong, when all we are saying is that he is incorrect by the rules of early 21st century English.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bodhi, post: 3133748, member: 19770"] No one has said otherwise. What has been said is that there's a difference between an individual saying "it's good" meaning they personally like it, and a critic saying "it's good" meaning it succeeds by the [i]conventional standards[/i] of the form. Certainly, everyone is entitled to like what they like, or not like what they don't. And certainly, anyone who tries to insist that you're somehow wrong or inferior for liking something is being silly (or obnoxious). The point is that there are rules for art. And yes, they're only conventions agreed upon by scholars. But so is spelling. Someone who insists that "spoon" is spelled "spuun" is just wrong, at least until the [i]consensus[/i] changes. Because it could (and eventually, will). Language changes over time, spelling changes over time, and yes, art changes over time. But, by the standards of early 21st century English, it's spelled "spoon". If you [i]prefer[/i] "spuun" or "spune" or "spooon", that's fine. But there is no final authority on the "correct" spelling. It's what we as English speakers [i]agree[/i] is the correct spelling. You're saying that the spuun-liker is being condemned as morally/spiritually/intrinsically (I'm not sure what the right word is) wrong, when all we are saying is that he is incorrect by the rules of early 21st century English. [/QUOTE]

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