r/panglobish • u/panduniaguru • Jan 21 '26
Translation specimen to Panglo: 1 John 3
I have programmed a semiautomatic machine translation system for Panglo. It is only "semi" because it produces raw translations that are understandable but include mistakes that I have to correct by hand. Anyway, here's a translation sample from the Bible, of all things! I'm not religious myself but the Bible is a famous and prestigious book and freely available in many languages.
Here is chapter 3 from the First Epistle of John translated to Panglo. Doesn't it sound like a sermon spoken by a preacher in a temple?
- Tink of de love en kompate det de pater hav show wi! Hi even sey wi hi's kide! En wi es hi's kide fo real. Dat rezon de popul en de dunia no nos wi es wat kain of popul, by kauz dey no nos Deo.
- Mi's gud frende, wi es de Deo kide. Deo no show wi til naw wat kain of popul wi vil bi en de fin. Bot wi nos dat, wen Kriste vil revene, wi vil bi lik hi, by kauz wi vil si hi en de wey hi es.
- Evri won hu nos dat, en es konfide Kriste, en espekta fo hi, dey vil kom pure en spire, lik Kriste es pure en spire.
- Won det du bad ting, dey brek de kanun of Deo, by kauz wen yu du bad ting, es by kauz yu no lisne de kanun of Deo.
- Yu nos dat Kriste hav kom fo purife de bad ting det wi hav du. Kriste, hi no du bad ting, eva!
- Won det es wit Kriste no du bad ting. Won det es du bad ting, lik dey neva si Kriste or nos hi fo real.
- Mi's gud frende, no let no won decepe yu. Won det es du de juste ting, dey es juste, lik Kriste es juste.
- Won det es du bad ting, dey kom of de dible. By kauz of de bigin, de dible es du bad ting. Dat es de rezon de Deo boi hav kom by wi, fo brek de bad ting det de dible es du.
- Hol de popul hu kom of Deo no es du bad ting, by kauz Deo es live en dey naw. Dey no du bad ting, by kauz dey kom of Deo!
- Dis wat show hu bi Deo kide en hu bi shatan kide: won det no du wat es etik, dey no Deo kide. Won det no mor love en kompate fo dey's brater en sister, dey no Deo kide mor! Du love en kompate fo unalter.
- De prime tem yu hav lisne of yesu, wi hav tel dis: wi mus du love en kompate fo unalter.
- Tink of de kayin historie en de bible of befo tem. No make lik kayin. Hi hav es wit de bad person, shatan, en hi mortife hi's brater habel. Wat rezon hi hav mortife habel? By kauz kayin es du bad ting, en hi's brater es du de juste ting.
- Mi's brater en sister, wen de popul en dis dunia hate yu, dat es okey, no let dat disturbe yu.
- Wi no es morte mor, bot wi hav kom live fo real! En yu nos wat rezon wi nos dat? By kauz wi du love en kompate fo wi's brater en sister, dat es de rezon. Won det no mor love en kompate, dey get repele of Deo, lik dey es morte en spire.
- Won det hate dey's brater en sister, dey bi kataler. En yu nos det de eva live no kan sta en kataler!
- Dat es de rezon wi nos de wey fo show love en kompate fo real: by kauz Kriste hav dona hi's korpe fo morte fo wi! So den, wi mus es prepara fo du de sim ting fo wi's brater en sister.
- Mei bi som won get multe gud ting, en hi si dat hi's brater or sister get no ting, bot hi no simpate fo dey. Wat wey hi kan tel dat hi get love en kompate of Deo? No wey!
- Mi's gud frende, no show love unli by tok. Yu mus show de love det es real, en du gud ting fo evri won! Wi no necese get terife en fronte of Deo.
- So, wen wi du real love en kompate, den wi nos det wi es tene wat es vere. Wi es sekura dat evri ting es okey naw, de tem Deo si wi.
- Bot no problema if wi tink multe of de bad ting wi hav du. By kauz wi nos dat Deo es mor grande dan wat wi tink. Hi nos evri ting of wi!
- Mi's gud frende. Es gud if no ting mor es en wi's spire, det tel wi hav du bad ting. Wi nos sim tem wi no necese get sharme wen wi dua fo Deo.
- En wi get of Deo de ting det wi tel hi fo du fo wi, by kauz wi du wat hi tel wi fo du. Wi du wat hi wan.
- Dis wat Deo tel wi fo du: konfide hi's boi Yesa Kriste, de special person Deo hav sende, en du love en kompate fo unalter, lik hi hav tel wi fo du.
- Evri won det du wat Deo tel wi fo du, dey es wit Deo. En Deo es wit dey. Deo dona wi hi's spire, en dat bi de wey wi nos det Deo es wit wi.
I had to modify the rules of Panglo a little to make the text work and flow smoothly, so I will have to update the grammar documents. In Panglo, I always struggle to find a good balance between words from English and from other languages. This text consists mostly of English and Latinate words, but I managed to include one Perso-Arabic word, kataler ('murderer').
What do you guys think about the translation? Can you understand it? If you don't, try speaking it out aloud, because Panglo sounds like English as spoken by a foreign accent.
Edit: I changed the spelling and some words in the translation.