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by crazy4gmat » Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:08 am
No nation can long survive unless its people are united by a common tongue. For proof, we need only consider Canada, which is being torn asunder by conflicts between French-speaking Quebec and the other provinces, which are dominated by English speakers.
Which of the following, if true, most effectively challenges the author’s conclusion?
(A) Conflicts over language have led to violent clashes between the Basque-speaking minority in Spain and the Spanish-speaking majority.
(B) Proposals to declare English the official language of the United States have met with resistance from members of Hispanic and other minority groups.
(C) Economic and political differences, along with linguistic ones, have contributed to the provincial conflicts in Canada.
(D) The public of India, in existence sine 1948, has a population that speaks hundreds of different, though related, languages.
(E) Switzerland has survived for nearly a thousand years as a home for speakers of three different languages.
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by Jatinder » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:20 am
D and E are close

IMO E....(different)
D(Different but related)
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by iamcste » Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:56 am
Agree with Jat

E

Different and 1000 years


D

Different, though related and just few years :(

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by mals24 » Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:29 am
One more vote for E

Same logic as Jatinder and Iamscte, the catch here is 'differently, though related' and '1000 years and 1948'.

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by Tryingmybest » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:22 pm
one more E

"No nation can long survive unless its people are united by a common tongue " is challenged by Choice E alone.

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by xyzabc123 » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:02 pm
D & E give examples of other countries. C directly weakens the example given in the stimulus: the difference in the language is not the real cause of the problems in the country.
So I choose C. What is OA?

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Re: language

by logitech » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:43 pm
crazy4gmat wrote:No nation can long survive unless its people are united by a common tongue. For proof, we need only consider Canada, which is being torn asunder by conflicts between French-speaking Quebec and the other provinces, which are dominated by English speakers.
Which of the following, if true, most effectively challenges the author’s conclusion?
(A) Conflicts over language have led to violent clashes between the Basque-speaking minority in Spain and the Spanish-speaking majority.
(B) Proposals to declare English the official language of the United States have met with resistance from members of Hispanic and other minority groups.
(C) Economic and political differences, along with linguistic ones, have contributed to the provincial conflicts in Canada.
(D) The public of India, in existence sine 1948, has a population that speaks hundreds of different, though related, languages.
(E) Switzerland has survived for nearly a thousand years as a home for speakers of three different languages.
First of all, I have doubts that this is an authentic GMAT question because the answer choices are not designed well.

A, B out
C actually tells us language is not the only problem but still out of scope.
D well we are not talking about seperate languages here. They are all related

E The best of these bad choices. So Swiss people managed it for 1000 years. Actually I don't really care about this big number because time is relative.

So IMO E
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by nervesofsteel » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:30 pm
E for me too

C can be discarded as there can be other reasons to the conflict but still Language difference is one of them.... so we can't rule out lang diff completely

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by nicolette » Fri May 13, 2016 1:38 am
E seems to be the best choice here

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by vanessa.m » Fri May 13, 2016 1:40 am
I also will choose E as the correct answer