Globalizarea lingvistică – noul limbaj de lemn
Linguistic globalization-the new „newspeak”

Summary/Abstract: The present paper underlines a degenerative tendency in present Romanian language- the benevolent acceptance of a mixed language, the so called” Rom-English”, which has already been adopted as part of the ”corporate culture”. The tendency is so accute that people who do not use this slang are considered unadapted and reticent. Romanians do not have “termene limită” any more but deadlines, do not hold “şedinţe” but meetings, do not work in a “clădire” but in a building, and examples can be countless. The border between preserving the language identity and adjusting to language modernity has alarmingly faded away, and this situation imposes a clarification in terms of thematic domains vs. a strict confinement of neological terms.

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