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Sound more like the writer you meant to be
Pick how you want to come across. Each page names the voice that does it and why.
A register is a set of choices about sentence length, hedging, and what you delete. underslop ships 32 voice profiles, and each page below matches one register to the profile that genuinely produces it, then links to the tool with those five sliders already set. The mapping is named on every page so you can check it against the profile yourself.
By register
- Warm and unstructured — audibly a person, not a process
- Robotic writing is three measurable habits, not a vocabulary problem: flat hedging, same-length sentences, low contractions. See which one your draft has.
- Loose and unscaffolded — an essay that wanders honestly
- Stiff writing means nominalizations and passive voice, not a mood. See the diagnosis and what the Wanderer voice loosens without cutting the substance.
- Plain and kind — the thing said once, without the edge underneath
- Passive-aggressive email usually comes from restating a fact both people already know. Cut the restatement, keep the request, and the edge goes with it.
- Cold verdict — the claim stated once, precisely, with the softeners gone
- Cutting every hedge can read like a machine, not authority. This page shows which hedges to cut and which to keep, based on our own hedge-suppression data.
- Explaining well — bright, inclusive, allergic to talking down
- Condescension shows up in three moments: the recap, the unrequested definition, and 'just' before an instruction. See where they land and how to cut them.
- Warm and organised — friendliness anchored to something specific
- Most friendly-email advice adds warmth. This page shows friendliness is one true, specific detail, and that adding it usually makes the email shorter.
- Terse and unflinching — states the fact once, then stops
- Deleting every 'sorry' makes an email curt. Move the ask to the first line, hold the apology count at zero, and see the same request rewritten firmer.
- Weighed and exact — few words, none of them reaching
- A pretentious sentence runs long against its idea. Here is the ratio test for that, and which words this site's own data marks contested, not banned.