#language shift

• Whitening — The act of whitening or turning white and its result; a physiological or chemical process through which a body, a textile material, or hair strands lose their natural pigment, becoming white or considerably lighter in color; a synonym variant for whitening.
• Anglicism — A language phenomenon (word, phrase, grammatical structure, or turn of phrase) borrowed directly or calqued from the English language into another idiom, without being fully adapted to the phonetic, morphological, or orthographic rules of the recipient language. In modern Romanian linguistics, it represents a highly dynamic category of neologisms heavily introduced into technological, economic, media jargon, and daily speech, frequently sparking intense debates regarding their standardization and appropriate usage.
• Anglicize — To give a word, a phrase, a proper name, or a custom from another language characteristics specific to the English language or English culture; to adopt Anglo-Saxon lifestyles, characteristics, or structural rules. In a linguistic and structural context, this well-defined process describes the phonetic and orthographic adaptation of foreign neologistic borrowings to the rules of English vocabulary.
• Anglicizing — Tending toward anglicization, favoring the introduction of English language traits, or consciously or unconsciously adopting Anglo-Saxon structural and lexical-morfological rules. As a well-defined critical descriptor in modern glottology, it characterizes cultural trends, professional jargons, or media expression styles heavily influenced by Anglophone vocabulary.
• Anglicization — The action of anglicizing or the structural process through which a linguistic element, a proper name, a community, or a custom adopts well-defined characteristics specific to the English language or Anglo-Saxon culture. In modern lexicology, it represents the phonetic, orthographic, and morphological adaptation of foreign borrowings to English rules or, conversely, the assimilation of English vocabulary into the structures of other languages.
• Anglicized — Having been adapted, modified, or structurally assimilated according to the rules of the English language or Anglo-Saxon culture; a word, proper name, or custom from another language that has received well-defined characteristics specific to the Anglophone space. In modern Romanian lexicology, this structural descriptor defines neologisms or hybrid forms used in daily jargon that partially or totally copy the British or American phonetic or graphical pattern.
• Transylvanianization — The act of becoming Transylvanianized and its result; a structural process through which a person, a community, or a text adopts the dialect, customs, mentality, or cultural specificity of Ardeal (Transylvania). In linguistics, it describes the assimilation or modification of language elements under the influence of Transylvanian dialectal norms.
• To argotize — To introduce terms, expressions, or syntactic structures specific to argot into a text, speech, or common language; to give a language or communication style an argotic character. As a reflexive verb, it describes the process by which standard language assimilates cryptic or slang lexical elements.
• Absalom — A Romanian masculine given name of biblical origin, adapted from the Hebrew Absalom (meaning 'father is peace' or 'father of peace'); in the Old Testament, it is the name of King David's third son, renowned for his exceptional beauty and his tragic rebellion against his own father. In Romanian onomastics, the variant Avesalom historically circulated within ecclesiastical circles and traditional communities, being encountered today as a rare literary given name or surname.
• Eugenia — An archaic or regional Moldavian form of the feminine given name Evghenia (or Eugenia), of Greek origin, translated as 'noble', 'well-born', or 'of distinguished lineage'. The name historically circulated during the 18th and 19th centuries within boyar and ecclesiastical families in Moldavia and Wallachia, preserving a distinguished, literary, and traditional resonance, found today exclusively in archive documents or as a rare surname.