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:

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!