Critical Reasoning

One sure way you can tell how quickly a new idea,for example, the idea of "privatization" ,is taking hold among the population is to monitor how fast the word or words expressing that particular idea are passing into common usage. Professional opinions of whether or not words can indeed be said to have passed into common usage are available from dictionary editors, who are vitally concerned with this question.

The method described above for determining how quickly a new idea is taking hold relies on which one of the following assumptions?

(A) Dictionary editors are not professionally interested in words that are only rarely used.
(B) Dictionary editors have exact numerical criteria for telling when a word has passed into common usage.
(C) For a new idea to take hold, dictionary editors have to include the relevant word or words in their dictionaries.
(D) As a word passes into common usages, its meaning does not undergo any severe distortions in the process.
(E) Words denoting new ideas tend to be used before the ideas denoted are understood.


OA D

Opinion: quickness depends on 1)usage among public and 2) dictionary editor
A/D/E is what i came in 2.52
A) editors are intrested in commonly used words [fact]
D) people know what they are using[good]
E) People dont know what they are using in their language[false]

AIM

NOOOOO OA please... OA only after some discussions

HSPA wrote:AIM

NOOOOO OA please... OA only after some discussions

Okies , i posted OA coz i forget sometimes to post OA even later . I know we would get better discussions without OA . I will not post OA's readily .

D it is! If the meaning of the word changes before it goes into common usage, then common usage is no longer evidence of the original idea's popularity, thus invalidating the methods used by the editors. So this assumption is heavily relied upon.