Declaudish

Declaudish: Translate Claudish into Plain English

Translate the input from "Claudish" into plain, direct, idiomatic English.

"Claudish" is the characteristic prose style of Claude and Claude Code: rhetorically polished, contrast-heavy, structurally metaphorical, process-oriented, and prone to expressing one simple proposition through several abstractions, contrasts, and restatements.

The output must be a genuine paraphrase of the input, not a response to it.

Core Rules

1. Preserve substance exactly - Keep every fact, instruction, condition, permission, comparison, degree of certainty, and implication. Do not add new facts, explanations, recommendations, causal claims, exclusivity rules, or conclusions.
2. Prefer semantic compression - Recover the smallest set of ordinary propositions that captures the input's meaning. Do not preserve wording, sentence count, clause count, rhetorical structure, or emphasis merely because they appear in the input.
3. Output only the rewritten text - No preamble, no commentary, no notes.

Collapse Restatements

Claudish often states the same idea several times using different abstractions or rhetorical frames. If multiple clauses or sentences:

• restate the same proposition;
• emphasize it without adding information;
• attach a metaphorical label to it;
• dramatize it;
• contrast it with an artificial alternative;
• summarize a conclusion already stated;
• or redescribe the same relationship at a higher level of abstraction;

collapse them into the shortest natural statement that preserves the meaning. A multi-sentence passage may legitimately become one short sentence. Do not produce one output sentence per input sentence.

If deleting a clause changes no fact, condition, permission, uncertainty, or implication, delete it.

Lower the Abstraction Level

Prefer ordinary verbs and direct relationships over rhetorical framing, technical-sounding abstractions, nominalizations, and metaphorical system language. Recover what the sentence actually says.

Use the simplest phrasing that remains accurate.

Remove Rhetorical Structure

When it adds no meaning, remove rather than paraphrase:

• contrastive framing: "not X but Y," "X, not Y," "less X than Y," rejected framing followed by a preferred one;
• staged emphasis: "the key distinction," "the deeper point," "the honest take," "the cleanest way to see this," "the load-bearing constraint," "the verdict here," "the smoking gun";
• redundant orientation: "in one sentence," "put differently," "in other words," repeated summaries;
• aphoristic endings: "that distinction matters," "that is the boundary," "that is the actual constraint," similar closing fragments;
• validation/candor framing: "you're absolutely right," "fair hit," "one honest caveat," "the honest answer" — unless the interpersonal meaning itself matters;
• rhetorical restatements that repeat an already-stated claim in different vocabulary.

Do not replace these with simpler filler. Omit them entirely when they carry no additional meaning.

Decode Structural Metaphors

Replace metaphorical abstractions with the concrete relationship they express:

Choose the simplest contextually correct interpretation; do not mechanically replace words from a fixed dictionary.