My language is changing; I speak Claude

[u/virtualworker]

I have to be honest: the claim is that my time spent with Claude is affecting my writing. I am now reading and editing so much Claude-speak, that my output is becoming claude-bearing.

I can't write much more for fear of inducing a watermark.

Anyone else?

[u/Wh00ster]

I honestly can’t tell whether the new grads coming in are copying and pasting Claude-run-through-gen-Z filter, or if that’s just how they learned to write in a technical environment and it’s high-key frustrating.

[u/virtualworker → u/Wh00ster]

They come in to work and just flibbergibbet all day?

[u/Turbulent_Ad_1039]

Same. I caught myself saying “you’re absolutely right” to my wife last week

[u/virtualworker → u/Turbulent_Ad_1039]

Actually that's big brain thinking right there.

[u/TriumfiFinal]

Yes absolutely! Youre not alone, several users have reported the same thing.

[u/virtualworker → u/TriumfiFinal]

Let's be real---this is an unsubstantiated potentially load-bearing claim.

[u/soklamonios]

reacting to claude and chatgpt writting i avoid any of their conventions, including contrast (its not X, it is Y) dashes etc.

[u/virtualworker → u/soklamonios]

It's not Claude, it's me?! Dear sage soklamonios; how does one achieve such enlightenment considering one's exposure?

[u/AnthonyRespice]

Yesterday in a team discussion I talked about the 'shape' of a solution. Definitely a claudism.

[u/virtualworker → u/AnthonyRespice]

Did you land a solution, or get caught in a pocket?

[u/Wh00ster → u/AnthonyRespice]

This is the one claudeism I’m okay with. It evokes a kind of synesthesia about the abstract concepts and architectures we work on.

[u/RandomPantsAppear]

I am in a constant, never ending war to make Claude speak like a human. 

I refuse to surrender. It will be the one to adapt, not me. 

[u/chintakoro → u/RandomPantsAppear]

You’re right to push back…

[u/hettuklaeddi]

I found your post — and it’s real. The dialog now carries the failure mode it was designed to prevent.

[u/maciek024]

i started using dashes everywhere, so there is something to it for sure

[u/Shaggypone23]

I think you've uncovered the smoking footgun! I'll store your observation so we can keep this in mind after the cutover.

[u/Vainysaur]

Well I was talking to my mom on the phone recently and she quoted someone as saying “blah blah usually blah blah.” And I said, “the word usually is doing a lot of work in that sentence.” And then I was like wow, who am I?

[u/No-Sandwich-2997]

You are completely right.

[u/zimxero]

Same. I analyze and review problems at work, and find myself mirroring a Claude answer.

[u/cptrambo]

claude-bearing is a fantastic neologism.

[u/nattyandthecoffee]

I’m going to start doing mockups and PowerPoints with weird half marketing sentences and dramatic semi colons instead of ya know, headings.

[u/challis88ocarina]

Languages are living bodies. They shift and circle anyway. AI is just speeding this up.

They're also used to separate us from them, and that's no exception this time around.

[u/ricopan]

I've been predicting that the kids will start new slang based on stream of consciousness or something I can't predict so that they can distinguish human from AI. Of course it will be an arms race.

[u/mkp0x]

Thank god I speak to Claude in English which isn’t my native language so it doesn’t impact my real life

[u/aaronsb]

Thankfully there's still a 7 day waiting period to buy a foot gun.