Panglish

What would English look like if it had no outside borrowings?

Well, here we have an LLM-based dictionary/translation website (a "big tongue tool"-rooted word-book/tongue-shifting web work):

Forewords

What would English look like if it had no outside borrowings?

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?

Those words 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?

Panglish gets its "drive" from another work called Anglish; however, while Anglish chooses old outlandish-sounding words, Panglish chooses words that an everyday English speaker could understand!

Hallmarks

• an input field to "translate" from English to Panglish (20 word limit)
• a screen of output with:
  • most likely "translations" (powered by AI)
  • "etymology" (word origins)
  • "alternative translations"
• about page
• FAQ page
• dark mode (for those kinds of days and nights!)
• FAQs have hidden URLs that open each FAQ

• front-end framework:
  • next.js
  • tailwind
• big-tongue tool (large language model):
  • llama-3.3-70b-versatile

Runtimes

• run it on panglish.joncoded.com
  • as well as panglish.vercel.app
• "code" on GitHub