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Updated on: 11 Aug 2018, 02:44
Originally posted by anish123ster on 10 May 2013, 04:38.
Last edited by Bunuel on 11 Aug 2018, 02:44, edited 3 times in total.
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Linguist: Each language has a word that captures a concept or emotional state in a way that no other language does. 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. That is not to say that such a language would contain as many words as there are in all the world’s languages. Rather, only for those words that have no corresponding word in another language. While such a plan is hugely ambitious, the resulting language would be more thorough than any existing language.
The conclusion drawn above depends on which of the following assumptions?
A) Extinct languages do not offer up words that capture concepts and emotional states in ways that fundamentally differ from those of existing languages.
B) Many languages have words that virtually overlap in the meaning they convey.
C) Each year hundreds of the world’s languages go extinct, once there are no longer any native speakers remaining.
D) It is possible for one person to learn all of the world’s existing languages.
E) The range of concepts and emotional states is the only indication of a language’s thoroughness.
The conclusion drawn above depends on which of the following assumptions?
A) Extinct languages do not offer up words that capture concepts and emotional states in ways that fundamentally differ from those of existing languages.
B) Many languages have words that virtually overlap in the meaning they convey.
C) Each year hundreds of the world’s languages go extinct, once there are no longer any native speakers remaining.
D) It is possible for one person to learn all of the world’s existing languages.
E) The range of concepts and emotional states is the only indication of a language’s thoroughness.
10 May 2013, 05:11
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A) Extinct languages do not offer up words that capture concepts and emotional states in ways that fundamentally differ from those of existing languages.
Are extinct languages important here?
B) Many languages have words that virtually overlap in the meaning they convey.
Numerous overlapping words would shrink the new language as they would not be included in it.
C) Each year hundreds of the world’s languages go extinct, once there are no longer any native speakers remaining.
Not relevant.
D) It is possible for one person to learn all of the world’s existing languages.
Not relevant.
E) The range of concepts and emotional states is the only indication of a language’s thoroughness.
This is the underlying assumption. The words mentioned are the crux of the argument, just as the language's thoroughness is.
When you remove this assumption, the conclusion falls apart.
Alas... I might be wrong though.
10 May 2013, 05:59
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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.
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.
