Panglish

an LLM-powered dictionary/translation website using a specialized prompt template:

Motivation

Panglish is a linguistic experiment that translates modern English words and phrases back to their Germanic etymological roots (not to be confused with the current German language):

By stripping away Latin, French, Greek (and most other) borrowings, we reveal the "pure" Germanic core of the English language.

English is a Germanic language that has borrowed heavily from Romance and other languages. Panglish imagines: what if English had developed without these influences?

The last two paragraphs would have looked like this:

Panglish is a speechlore try-out that tongue-shifts same-timely English words and word-rows back to their Germanic word-birth roots (not to be mixed-up with today's German language). By stripping away Latin, French and Greek borrowings, we show the "rooted" Germanic heart of the English tongue.

English is a Germanic tongue that has borrowed strongly from "Romance" and other tongues. Panglish thinks: what if English had grown without these borrowings?

Features

• search bar to translate English to Panglish (20 word limit)
• translation results screen with:
  • possible translation (powered by AI)
  • etymology (word origin genealogy)
  • alternative translations
• about page
• dark mode (for those kind of days and nights!)

Specifications

• front-end frameworks: next.js and tailwind
• large language model: llama-3.3-70b-versatile

Demo

• Run the demo on panglish.joncoded.com