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ID: LSAT-LR-037
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Main Point
Difficulty level: Hard

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Two objections are made to the proposed spelling reform: that it will cut readers off from older books, and that its choices are arbitrary. The first is answered by three centuries of practice -- readers have managed Shakespeare in modernised spelling since the eighteenth century without noticeable difficulty. The second is not answered at all. Every choice the committee made between two defensible forms was settled by a vote, and no principle governing those votes was ever stated.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

AThe proposed spelling reform is arbitrary, since no principle was ever stated to govern the committee's choices.

BOf the two objections made to the proposed spelling reform, one can be answered by three centuries of practice and the other has so far not been answered at all.

CReaders have managed Shakespeare in modernised spelling since the eighteenth century, and three centuries of that practice have caused no noticeable difficulty.

DAny reform that settles its choices between two equally defensible forms by taking a vote, rather than by applying some principle stated in advance, is arbitrary, whatever else may be said for it.

EThe proposed spelling reform should be abandoned, because the objection that its choices are arbitrary has been left standing and unanswered.

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