Linguist: Each language has a word that captures a concept or emotiona

Argument Analysis
1. Each language has a word that captures a concept or emotional state in a way that no other language does.
2. To capture such a breadth of expression, an artificial language should be created that contains words corresponding to all the different concepts and emotional states captured by the world’s languages.
3. Conclusion: the resulting language would be more thorough than any existing language.

Pre thinking:
Author is concluding that a language more thorough than any existing language can be created by using words corresponding to all the different concepts and emotional states captured by the world’s languages.
Now the author here is assuming that the new language would be more thorough by only using word corresponding to different concepts and emotional and no other feature is required for a language to be through.


Analysis of answer choices:
A) Extinct languages do not offer up words that capture concepts and emotional states in ways that fundamentally differ from those of existing languages.
INCORRECT: irrelevant. No discussion about extinct languages in the argument.
B) Many languages have words that virtually overlap in the meaning they convey.
INCORRECT: irrelevant. Word overlapping has nothing to do with thoroughness.
C) Each year hundreds of the world’s languages go extinct, once there are no longer any native speakers remaining.
INCORRECT: irrelevant. Has nothing to do with thoroughness.
D) It is possible for one person to learn all of the world’s existing languages.
INCORRECT: irrelevant.
E) The range of concepts and emotional states is the only indication of a language’s thoroughness.
CORRECT : This is what the author assumes when he say that by just using words corresponding to different concepts and emotional state a new more through language can be created.