catalan natural

Catalan Natural

Poor localization and Catalanglish make technical products sound amateurish to native Catalan speakers. This skill helps produce natural Catalan by catching Spanish syntax interference, literal English translations, and common grammatical errors.

What it does

• Fixes Spanish interference by removing common barbarisms like "logro" or "disfrutar" and correcting syntactic errors like "lo" neutre and "tenir que".
• Eliminates Catalanglish by replacing literal translations of English idioms and passive voice with active, natural Catalan.
• Corrects grammar traps including the "hi han" error, pronominal combinations like "els hi", and the misuse of "per/per a".
• Enforces orthography by applying current IEC diacritic rules, proper apostrophation, and Catalan-specific punctuation like low quotes « ».
• Preserves meaning and intent by correcting the language without inventing claims, changing the message, or rewriting content that is already correct.
• Adapts to context by matching the register, audience, and purpose of the text, whether it is UI copy, marketing content, documentation, or a short message.
• Optimizes formatting for numbers, currencies, and units, ensuring comma decimals and space-separated symbols (e.g., 50 €).

How it works

1. Provide the text to review or describe what you need written in Catalan.
2. Apply the /catalan-natural command to trigger a linguistic review.
3. Check for specific traps such as gerunds of posteriority, incorrect pronouns, and lowercase months and days.
4. Return the corrected text first. Explain only the changes that matter, and preserve the original structure unless there is a reason to change it.

Frameworks & tools

Linguistic guidance based on IEC standards, Optimot, ésAdir, and Softcatalà style guides.

Why use this instead of a generic prompt?

Generic LLMs can produce Catalan influenced by Spanish syntax or translated too literally from English. This skill applies a focused linguistic review based on common Catalan errors and current orthographic conventions.

It also distinguishes between correcting the language and rewriting the message. A text can be grammatically correct and still sound unnatural in its context.

Use cases

• UI/UX strings: Make buttons, alerts, and interface text sound natural to Catalan speakers.
• Marketing copy: Remove Spanish interference and English calques without introducing generic advertising language.
• Technical documentation: Keep instructions precise and grammatically correct, especially when sentences contain complex relationships or conditions.
• Existing text: Correct linguistic errors while preserving the author's voice and intended meaning.

Known limitations

• Does not support archaic pre-2017 diacritics.
• Focuses on central Catalan standards by default.
• Uses context to resolve ambiguous expressions where possible. If the intended meaning cannot be established, asks for clarification rather than guessing.
• Linguistic correction does not replace subject-matter review or verification of factual claims.