But, while the presence and pressure of English has a striking impact on the vocabulary of the home language, it leaves the syntax, grammar, and pronunciation almost entirely unaffected. Unlike the indigenous languages that were pushed aside by the languages of the European colonizers, the official languages of the EU are “robust”: they are equipped with grammars, dictionaries, archives, libraries, and linguistics faculties.
虽然英语的强势和压力对其他国家语言的词汇有着明显的影响，但对它们的语义、语法和语音却几乎没有产生影响。和被欧洲殖民者的语言边缘化的许多土语不同，欧盟的官方语言是“健壮”的：他们都拥有语法、词典、资料库、图书馆和语言学设施。他们都有数百年历史的印刷文献，最重要的是，它们都被强大的国家守护着。