Professor: The best users of a language are its great authors. However

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Professor: The best users of a language are its great authors. However, these authors often use language in ways that are innovative and idiosyncratic, and are therefore less respectful of the strictures of proper usage than most of us are.

The Professor’s statements, if true, most support which one of the following?

(A) People who want to become great writers should not imitate great authors’ use of language.

(B) Writers who do not observe proper language usage risk developing a peculiar or idiosyncratic style.

(C) Those most talented at using a language are not as likely as most other people to observe proper language usage.

(D) People who use an innovative or idiosyncratic writing style often incur criticism of their language usage.

(E) The standard for what constitutes proper language usage should be set by the best users of a language.

sudarshan22 · Answer

+1 for  C .

Stimulus : Though the best users of language are the great authors, the language they use are less respectful than the language used by  most of us .

(C) Those most talented at using a language are not as likely as most other people to observe proper language usage -->  Correct

Hence,  C .

Srajagopal21 · Answer

What can we infer from the statements
(A) People who want to become great writers should not imitate great authors’ use of language. 
 Not discussed.

(B) Writers who do not observe proper language usage risk developing a peculiar or idiosyncratic style. 
 Its the other way round.

(C) Those most talented at using a language are not as likely as most other people to observe proper language usage. 
 Can be inferred

(D) People who use an innovative or idiosyncratic writing style often incur criticism of their language usage. 
 Nothing mentioned about criticism

(E) The standard for what constitutes proper language usage should be set by the best users of a language.
 Cannot be inferred.

Answer should be  C

paridhibajaj · Answer

Was contesting bwtween C and D, though D because the last line seem like criticism. However, explanations say that "It wasn't explicity mentioned"

Mental Note: ALWAYS look for very obvious/explicitly mentioned things for inference questions.

Pranavsawant · Answer

Okay so it's pretty easy to boil it down to C and D. While the prof is not explicitly criticizing these authors but he is surely saying that they are "less respectful", a mild criticism. In option C, you are basically assuming that most talented == best. Which is not necessarily the case. I can argue that Gukesh is the most talented chess player but Carlsen is the best. Best and most talented don't necessarily mean the same. Isn't that a rather obvious flaw in option C? I'm assuming this is not an official question, I doubt the GMAT would be this dubious in its wording. 
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