JUST HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH IN THE EVER GLOBAL USE OF ENGLISH?
JUST HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH IN THE EVER GLOBAL USE OF ENGLISH?

Summary/Abstract: Along the centuries, Latin, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and French have each been the world’s lingua franca at one point or another. English in turn is used currently anywhere around the globe when two or more people meet who need to talk to each other and do not share the same first language. As the title of this article states, it is paramount for the identity of a culture and its pertaining language to wonder how much can sometimes prove to be too much? Anglicisms as defined by the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language represent a word or phrase borrowed from English into a foreign language, i.e. a harmless means of language enrichment. Only it turns out that when abused of, loan words may eventually affect the entire concept of enrichment. Have we actually enriched Romanian by taking over English words and using them as such or have we merely depleted it of the purport of its very existence?

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