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An
anglicism, as most often defined, is a word borrowed from
English language into another language. Speakers of the recipient language usually consider an anglicism to be substandard or undesirable (as a form of language contamination). "Anglicism" also describes English syntax, grammar, meaning and structure used in another language with varying degrees of corruption.
Anglicisms in Chinese
Note: 'Chinglish refers to poor or broken English spoken or written by native Chinese speakers, while Anglicisms in Chinese
refers to appropriation of English terms, expressions, or concepts into Chinese language. These two concepts should not be confused.
- Example of Anglicism by phonetic borrowing: use of expression "巴士" (instead of "公共汽車") for "bus" because of similarity in sound.
- Syntactic Anglicism: occurs when a sentence is rendered following the English word order instead of Chinese word order.
- Semantic Anglicism: example, "網路" "Internet", "網" used to translate "net".
- Numbers: grouping numbers by thousands instead of ten-thousands, e.g. reading 35000 as "三十五千" (35,000) instead of "三萬五千" (3,5000).
Anglicisms in Dutch
See Dunglish
Anglicisms in Afrikaans
See Anglisaans (content in
Afrikaans)
Anglicisms in French
A distinction is made between well-established English borrowings into French, and other words and structures regarded as incorrect.
Occasionally governments of both Quebec and
France have undertaken strenuous efforts to eradicate anglicisms, with some success, although in modern times there has been a more relaxed attitude. Sometimes a new word is coined in French language that succeeds in replacing the anglicism — for instance,
logiciel ("software"). French efforts against anglicisms are admired by many other countries suffering from overuse of anglicisms.
However, the
Académie française's directives are not always considered very appropriate; for instance, it has decreed that "online chat" be replaced by
causette or
parlotte, but these are terms for "chat" that are not commonly used. (In Quebec a different solution has been found to translate "online chat." The word
clavardage is increasingly gaining acceptance. This neologism is a
portmanteau word coined from the words
clavier (English
keyboard) and
bavardage (English
chat).)
Quebec French and European French tend to have entirely different anglicisms for historical reasons. Quebec French acquired its anglicisms in a gradual process of linguistic borrowing resulting from living among and alongside English speakers for two and a half centuries since the
Battle of the Plains of Abraham of 1759. European French, on the other hand, mostly adopted its anglicisms in recent decades due to the post–
Second World War international dominance of English. Furthermore, the use of English words is more socially deprecated and less a mark of "coolness" in Quebec than in France. Thus, the people of Quebec and France will rather amusingly often consider each other's anglicisms as barbarous, while considering their own perfectly normal.
An example of a European French anglicism not used in Quebec:
sweat: short for
sweatshirt, but pronounced like the English word "sweet"
An example of a Quebec French anglicism not used in
France;
frencher: to French kiss
As can be seen above, sometimes an anglicism will have a different meaning from the original English word, due to abbreviation or other reasons.
Another type of anglicism is a phrase or structure that is literally translated or
calqued from the English. For example, the valediction
Sincèrement vôtre is regarded as an anglicism, a direct translation of the English
Sincerely yours, when a native French valediction would be more appropriate.
Because English itself borrowed a great amount of French vocabulary after the Norman Conquest, some anglicisms are actually
Old French words that dropped from usage over the centuries in French itself but were preserved in English, and have now come full circle back into French. For instance the verb
to flirt comes from the old French
conter fleurette, which means "to (try to) seduce". This expression is no longer used in French, but the English "gallicism"
to flirt has made its way back over the Channel and has now become an anglicism in French.
Sometimes an expression incorrectly translated from the English becomes more successful than the original one. For instance, a
tax heaven comes from an incorrect translation of
tax haven by French speakers who mixed up
haven and
heaven. So they spoke about a
paradis fiscal, an expression that inspired the English-speaking people who retranslated it into
tax heaven.
Note, some words were borrowed from English into French centuries ago, such as
clown (pronounced "kloon"), (in French the latter means "
melancholy", and not the "
spleen" organ). These are not anglicisms, but rather are considered perfectly good French words fully accepted by the
Académie française.
Perhaps the only difference between an anglicism and a full-fledged French word is the test of time.
Anglicisms in German
See Denglisch
Anglicisms in Italian
Under
Benito Mussolini efforts were made to "purify"
Italian language of anglicisms and other foreign "contaminants". Today, Italy is the country in Europe where anglicism are most used, without alterations.
Anglicisms in Spanish
Spanization of English words is frequent.
In Spain, the adoption of English words is extremely common in the spheres of business and information technology, although it is usually frowned upon by purists
Anglicisms in Finnish
See also (American) FinglishThe anglicisms can be divided to four types: direct phonetic imitation, lexical and grammatical
calques, and contamination of orthography. Official language (as given by the Language Planning Office) deprecates anglicisms, and for the most part, native constructions are sufficient even in spoken Finnish. Nevertheless, some anglicisms creep in.
Computer jargon is generally full of direct imitation, e.g.
svappi "swap". Other jargons with abundant anglicisms are pop music, scifi, gaming, fashion, automobile and to some extent scientific jargon. This is regarded a sign of overspecialization, if used outside the context of the jargon. Generally, direct imitation is not as common, but there are examples. For example, the word
sexy , pronounced with an Y unlike in English , might be used as an adjective. This is teenager-specific.
Lexical calques take an English expression, like
killer application, and produce
tappajasovellus, which does mean "an application that kills" just as in English. You will need to know the equivalent English term to understand this.
Some speakers, especially those in frequent contact with the English language have created a grammatical calque of the English
you-impersonal. The English impersonal utilizes the second person pronoun
you, e.g.
You can't live if you don't eat. Here, the word
you does not refer explicitly to the listener, but signifies a general statement. The same example is rendered in Finnish as
Syömättä ei elä, where a separate grammatical impersonal (also known as
passiivi) is used. When translated word-by-word,
Sä et elä jos sä et syö, it will refer directly to the listener. Here the contraction
sä of spoken language is used instead of the
sinä of spoken language. Then,
you will need to understand that it is an anglicism, or
you can be offended by the commanding "You there!" tone produced. (There are also native examples of the same construction, so the origin of this piece of grammar may not always be English.)
An English orthographical convention is that compound words are written separately, whereas in Finnish, compound words are written together, using a hyphen with acronyms and numbers. In Finnish,
prosessitekniikka and
Intel 80286 -prosessori would be correct, but
process engineering or
Intel 80286 processor would not. Failure to join the words or omitting the hyphen can be either an honest mistake, or contamination from English.
Another orthographical convention is that English words tend to be written as the originals. For example, the computer jargon term from
to chat is written as
chattailla (chat + frequentative), even if it is pronounced
sättäillä. The forms
chattäillä or
chättäillä are used, too. Sometimes, it is even standard language, e.g.
sherry , instead of according to English pronunciation
šeri .
Other definitions
In the context of Interlingua, an anglicism is a uniquely English expression used when speaking or writing Interlingua. Many English expressions have penetrated into a Interlingua and eligibility of international words, making them good Interlingua expressions. Novice speakers sometimes assume that an English expression is correct Interlingua when it is not sufficiently international. For example, a novice may use
Lassa nos considerar le optiones to mean 'Let's consider the options', as in English. In Interlingua, however, this expression means 'Permit us to consider the options'. A more international expression is
Que nos considera le optiones, literally 'That we consider the options'.
Briticisms, Americanisms and other -isms
A
List of British idioms is an expression peculiar to British English, from an outsider's point-of-view. The term "Briticism" is an Americanism.
An Americanism is an expression peculiar to
North American English, from an outsider's point-of-view.
There is an article discussing American and British English differences, and for English worldwide look at the English language#Major regional variations entry.
The influence of
Australian television has also introduced some Australianisms to English speech elsewhere.
See also
An
anglicism, as most often defined, is a word borrowed from English language into another language. Speakers of the recipient language usually consider an anglicism to be substandard or undesirable (as a form of
language contamination). "Anglicism" also describes English syntax, grammar, meaning and structure used in another language with varying degrees of corruption.
Anglicisms in Chinese
Note: 'Chinglish refers to poor or broken English spoken or written by native Chinese speakers, while Anglicisms in Chinese
refers to appropriation of English terms, expressions, or concepts into Chinese language. These two concepts should not be confused.
- Example of Anglicism by phonetic borrowing: use of expression "巴士" (instead of "公共汽車") for "bus" because of similarity in sound.
- Syntactic Anglicism: occurs when a sentence is rendered following the English word order instead of Chinese word order.
- Semantic Anglicism: example, "網路" "Internet", "網" used to translate "net".
- Numbers: grouping numbers by thousands instead of ten-thousands, e.g. reading 35000 as "三十五千" (35,000) instead of "三萬五千" (3,5000).
Anglicisms in Dutch
See Dunglish
Anglicisms in Afrikaans
See Anglisaans (content in
Afrikaans)
Anglicisms in French
A distinction is made between well-established English borrowings into French, and other words and structures regarded as incorrect.
Occasionally governments of both
Quebec and
France have undertaken strenuous efforts to eradicate anglicisms, with some success, although in modern times there has been a more relaxed attitude. Sometimes a new word is coined in French language that succeeds in replacing the anglicism — for instance,
logiciel ("software"). French efforts against anglicisms are admired by many other countries suffering from overuse of anglicisms.
However, the
Académie française's directives are not always considered very appropriate; for instance, it has decreed that "online chat" be replaced by
causette or
parlotte, but these are terms for "chat" that are not commonly used. (In Quebec a different solution has been found to translate "online chat." The word
clavardage is increasingly gaining acceptance. This neologism is a
portmanteau word coined from the words
clavier (English
keyboard) and
bavardage (English
chat).)
Quebec French and European French tend to have entirely different anglicisms for historical reasons. Quebec French acquired its anglicisms in a gradual process of linguistic borrowing resulting from living among and alongside English speakers for two and a half centuries since the
Battle of the Plains of Abraham of 1759. European French, on the other hand, mostly adopted its anglicisms in recent decades due to the post–Second World War international dominance of English. Furthermore, the use of English words is more socially deprecated and less a mark of "coolness" in Quebec than in France. Thus, the people of Quebec and France will rather amusingly often consider each other's anglicisms as barbarous, while considering their own perfectly normal.
An example of a European French anglicism not used in
Quebec:
sweat: short for
sweatshirt, but pronounced like the English word "sweet"
An example of a Quebec French anglicism not used in
France;
frencher: to
French kiss
As can be seen above, sometimes an anglicism will have a different meaning from the original English word, due to abbreviation or other reasons.
Another type of anglicism is a phrase or structure that is literally translated or
calqued from the English. For example, the
valediction Sincèrement vôtre is regarded as an anglicism, a direct translation of the English
Sincerely yours, when a native French valediction would be more appropriate.
Because English itself borrowed a great amount of French vocabulary after the Norman Conquest, some anglicisms are actually Old French words that dropped from usage over the centuries in French itself but were preserved in English, and have now come full circle back into French. For instance the verb
to flirt comes from the old French
conter fleurette, which means "to (try to) seduce". This expression is no longer used in French, but the English "gallicism"
to flirt has made its way back over the Channel and has now become an anglicism in French.
Sometimes an expression incorrectly translated from the English becomes more successful than the original one. For instance, a
tax heaven comes from an incorrect translation of
tax haven by French speakers who mixed up
haven and
heaven. So they spoke about a
paradis fiscal, an expression that inspired the English-speaking people who retranslated it into
tax heaven.
Note, some words were borrowed from English into French centuries ago, such as
clown (pronounced "kloon"), (in French the latter means "melancholy", and not the "spleen" organ). These are not anglicisms, but rather are considered perfectly good French words fully accepted by the
Académie française.
Perhaps the only difference between an anglicism and a full-fledged French word is the test of time.
Anglicisms in German
See Denglisch
Anglicisms in Italian
Under
Benito Mussolini efforts were made to "purify"
Italian language of anglicisms and other foreign "contaminants". Today, Italy is the country in Europe where anglicism are most used, without alterations.
Anglicisms in Spanish
Spanization of English words is frequent.
In Spain, the adoption of English words is extremely common in the spheres of business and information technology, although it is usually frowned upon by purists
Anglicisms in Finnish
See also (American) FinglishThe anglicisms can be divided to four types: direct phonetic imitation, lexical and grammatical calques, and contamination of orthography. Official language (as given by the Language Planning Office) deprecates anglicisms, and for the most part, native constructions are sufficient even in spoken Finnish. Nevertheless, some anglicisms creep in.
Computer jargon is generally full of direct imitation, e.g.
svappi "swap". Other jargons with abundant anglicisms are pop music, scifi, gaming, fashion, automobile and to some extent scientific jargon. This is regarded a sign of overspecialization, if used outside the context of the jargon. Generally, direct imitation is not as common, but there are examples. For example, the word
sexy , pronounced with an Y unlike in English , might be used as an adjective. This is teenager-specific.
Lexical calques take an English expression, like
killer application, and produce
tappajasovellus, which does mean "an application that kills" just as in English. You will need to know the equivalent English term to understand this.
Some speakers, especially those in frequent contact with the English language have created a grammatical calque of the English
you-impersonal. The English impersonal utilizes the second person pronoun
you, e.g.
You can't live if you don't eat. Here, the word
you does not refer explicitly to the listener, but signifies a general statement. The same example is rendered in Finnish as
Syömättä ei elä, where a separate grammatical impersonal (also known as
passiivi) is used. When translated word-by-word,
Sä et elä jos sä et syö, it will refer directly to the listener. Here the contraction
sä of spoken language is used instead of the
sinä of spoken language. Then,
you will need to understand that it is an anglicism, or
you can be offended by the commanding "You there!" tone produced. (There are also native examples of the same construction, so the origin of this piece of grammar may not always be English.)
An English orthographical convention is that compound words are written separately, whereas in Finnish, compound words are written together, using a hyphen with acronyms and numbers. In Finnish,
prosessitekniikka and
Intel 80286 -prosessori would be correct, but
process engineering or
Intel 80286 processor would not. Failure to join the words or omitting the hyphen can be either an honest mistake, or contamination from English.
Another orthographical convention is that English words tend to be written as the originals. For example, the computer jargon term from
to chat is written as
chattailla (chat +
frequentative), even if it is pronounced
sättäillä. The forms
chattäillä or
chättäillä are used, too. Sometimes, it is even standard language, e.g.
sherry , instead of according to English pronunciation
šeri .
Other definitions
In the context of
Interlingua, an anglicism is a uniquely English expression used when speaking or writing Interlingua. Many English expressions have penetrated into a Interlingua and eligibility of international words, making them good Interlingua expressions. Novice speakers sometimes assume that an English expression is correct Interlingua when it is not sufficiently international. For example, a novice may use
Lassa nos considerar le optiones to mean 'Let's consider the options', as in English. In Interlingua, however, this expression means 'Permit us to consider the options'. A more international expression is
Que nos considera le optiones, literally 'That we consider the options'.
Briticisms, Americanisms and other -isms
A
List of British idioms is an expression peculiar to British English, from an outsider's point-of-view. The term "Briticism" is an
Americanism.
An Americanism is an expression peculiar to
North American English, from an outsider's point-of-view.
There is an article discussing American and British English differences, and for English worldwide look at the
English language#Major regional variations entry.
The influence of
Australian television has also introduced some
Australianisms to English speech elsewhere.
See also
Anglicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dictionary of Difficult Words - anglicism, Anglicism
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anglicism -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on anglicism:...spheres has produced a crop of loanwords, especially since the 17th century, when French in particular began to borrow a fair ...
Anglicism - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Definitions of Anglicism at Dictionary.com. ... 3. a word, idiom, or characteristic feature of the English language occurring in or borrowed by another language.
Anglicism - Definition at the #1 Online Dictionary
Definition of Anglicism: ... noun. a word, phrase, grammatical construction, etc. originating in or peculiar to English, esp.
Chambers Search Chambers
Anglicism noun 1 an English word, phrase or idiom, especially one that slips into a sentence in another language. 2 a custom or characteristic that is peculiar to the English.
Anglicism - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
En anglicism är ett typiskt engelskt uttryck som direktöversätts till ett annat språk. Termen används både om sådana ord som blivit allmänt accepterade i det översatta ...
English language in europe
The existing dictionaries of Anglicisms in the main European languages document the way in which an English source word is adapted into an Anglicism. (The principles of adaptation ...
Anglicism - definition of Anglicism by the Free Online Dictionary ...
Definition of Anglicism in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of Anglicism. Pronunciation of Anglicism. Translations of Anglicism. Anglicism synonyms, Anglicism antonyms.
