How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

Absolutely ripping your hair out reading Claude referring to everything as “honest takes” and "load-bearing seams"? You’re not the only one. But what if I tell you there’s a way to take this massive source of frustration and make it so ridiculous you can't but laugh at it? Or just simply fix Claude's vocabulary. I present to you, the MessageDisplay hook.

First you need a little script with some replacements set up:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json, re, sys

replacements = {

"seam": "whatchamacallit",

"you're absolutely right": "I'm a complete clown",

"honest take": "spicy doodad",

"load-bearing": "cooked"

}

data = json. load ( sys. stdin )

text = data. get ( "delta" ) or ""

for phrase, replacement in replacements. items ( ):

pattern = r " \b " + re. escape ( phrase ) + r " \b "

text = re. sub ( pattern, replacement, text, flags = re. IGNORECASE )

print ( json. dumps ( {

"hookSpecificOutput": {

"hookEventName": "MessageDisplay",

"displayContent": text,

}

} ) )

put that in ~/.claude/hooks/wordswap.sh and make it executable with chmod +x ~/.claude/hooks/wordswap.sh. Then to hook it up, add it to your ~/.claude/settings.json in the hooks block like:

{

"hooks": {

"MessageDisplay": [

{ "hooks": [ { "type": "command", "command": "$HOME/.claude/hooks/wordswap.sh" } ] }

]

}

}

Hooks load at startup, so you just need to start a new session to start your new life.

I'm sure you can come up with much better and more productive replacements than me. Have fun!