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Spot potential misunderstandings across global Englishes
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Spot potential misunderstandings across global Englishes
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WIT is an AI communication check for founders and global teams. Paste an email, Slack message or product copy to see how it may land across American, Indian and Singapore English, understand why and get a clearer alternative without losing your voice. Before you hit send, see if your message travels.
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Hi! I am Maria, one of the makers behind WIT - Will It Travel?
Working in international teams, I’ve often anxiously reread a message several times before sending it, wondering whether it might sound rude, unclear or mean something different to the person receiving it.
That experience inspired WIT.
Paste a Slack message or email and WIT explores how it may be understood across American, Indian and Singapore English. It highlights potential misunderstandings, explains where they may come from and suggests clearer wording for an international audience.
WIT doesn’t rank one variety of English above another or automatically replace your writing. It gives you the reasoning and an alternative, then you decide what to keep.
We built this early version as Team Oranges & Lemons, an international team working together across countries and time zones. We’re launching early because we want real feedback before deciding how to make it better next.
Please try it with and tell us what worked or what didn’t. We would especially love to know:
Did WIT find something genuinely useful?
Did anything feel wrong or confusing?
Did the suggestion preserve what you intended to say?
Before you hit send, see if your message travels✈️
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@maria_telegina how the descriptive parity approach compared to grammarly just forcing us english on everything? really like it gives the reasoning for sg/in readers instead of just auto replacing text.
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@mohsinproduct Thank you for this point! This is exactly the distinction we wanted to make.
WIT presents different interpretations side by side and explains where possible misunderstandings come from. It gives the user an opportunity to decide whether anything actually needs to change for their original message, and to learn more about other Englishes if they are interested.
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Hi!
Communication in international spaces can be hard, and can lead to a lot of misunderstandings among colleagues. That's where WIT comes in, send your possibly unclear message and see how it might be interpreted by other English speakers.
Meet WIT — Will It Travel?
WIT is a language risk audit tool that explores how a message might be interpreted across different varieties of English. For our first version, we’re looking at American, Indian, and Singapore English.
The goal isn’t to decide which version of English is “correct.” Instead, WIT helps make potential differences in interpretation visible, things like wording, tone, or phrases that might make sense to one audience but create confusion for another.
This idea is especially meaningful to me because I’ve experienced those misunderstandings myself when communicating with international friends and collaborators. Sometimes a message can seem completely clear to you and still land very differently for someone else.
We’re excited to be launching today on Product Hunt, it has been a wonderful journey so far!
What’s a phrase or message you’ve sent that you later realized could have been interpreted completely differently?
Not auto-replacing is the right call. Most tools go straight to the rewrite and you lose any way to argue with it. The thing I'd watch is false positives, because if it flags a sentence that was actually fine, people stop reading the flags inside a week and you never hear about it. Nobody files a bug for a tool they've quietly started ignoring. Three Englishes is a curious cut too, British was the one I expected to see first.
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@asadmalik901 Thank you for your comment.
Brilliant point - false positives might be more damaging for trust than missed risks. The three Englishes were a scope decision for this first prototype.
British English is an obvious next addition. What other varieties would you expect to see early on?