IT Vocabulary vs.common Vocabulary. Linguistic Enrichment of Romanian Autochthonous Vocabulary

摘要

Romanian IT [1] domain owes the enrichment and modernization for Romanian technical terminologies to English language, although the first translations of treaties and specialized textbooks were made in French. The predominance of English origin in the specialized terminology, and especially in IT technology fits into a broader phenomenon of English influences that materializes through a massive penetration of words and sentence structures in all Romanian economic and socio-political branches - economy, government, politics, science and arts, in general. The manifestation of this phenomenon proves that we are dealing with a fairly quick process in the evolution of language. It is about the fact that Romanian is a Romance language and English is a Germanic one, which means that the grammatical structure, as the phonetic or the lexical, moreover, are different.