#8- Weaken

[lsat2016]

Hello,

How can you eliminate answer choice A?
I selected it because the passage “Spanish poets take their language for granted, rarely using it in radical or experimental ways”.

Doesn’t this provide support for “Spanish language evolved into a stable and reliable form of expression”?

[Clay Cooper]

Hi Lsat2016,

Thanks for your question. Did you mean to ask about question 12?

If so, we can eliminate answer choice A because "cultural conservatism" is only mentioned in lines 32-34 as a feature of Spanish poetry. The author does not claim that this cultural conservatism caused anything (including having any impact on the evolution of Spanish into a stable and reliable form of expression) but instead mentions this conservatism as a way in which Spanish poetry is different from that of Latin America.

In other words, the author doesn't claim that the cultural conservatism is a cause, but an effect, and thus answer choice A mischaracterizes the author's claims.