an LLM-powered dictionary/translation website using a specialized prompt template
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?
- 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!)
- front-end frameworks:
next.jsandtailwind - large language model:
llama-3.3-70b-versatile
Run the demo on panglish.joncoded.com or panglish.vercel.app if I forget to pay the bills
Run the following commands on your command line:
% git clone https://github.com/joncoded/panglish.git panglish && cd panglish
% npm installConfigure your .env.local file on the root folder (this must be done):
GROQ_API_KEY=your_groq_api_key
If you don't have this you can get it for free at:
- groq
GROQ_API_KEY: create API key > copy and past an API key- you can later use the same API key for any LLM
Finally, back in the command line, run the app on your localhost with:
npm run dev
The app will run on http://localhost:3000
(if port 3000 is already used, it will host the app on :3001 or on the next available port)
Make changes by following this procedure:
- clone the repository as mentioned above
- create a feature branch
git checkout -b feature/branch
- make and commit your changes
git commit -m "what you changed"
- push your changes
git push origin feature/branch
- open pull request
Also, feel free to raise any issues!
- Groq for LLMs
- Claude (Sonnet) for helping me create this in one day (it's the idea behind the website, not the website itself, that I was trying to bring to life!)
What Panglish looked like when it was a "kid":
It had high hopes: had dreams of becoming a "blogger", but focused on being a translator, while changing its hair colour from blue to green!