Floskeldetektor

Tax notices, job-center letters, rental contracts - German administrative language loves nested sentences, heavy nouns and formulas that sound as if they deserve their own legal paragraph. "The assessment is made subject to review." What is that supposed to mean? The Jargon Detector answers exactly that question, word by word.

You paste your text and start the analysis. The tool scans against a dictionary of hundreds of typical bureaucratic phrases and highlights each hit in yellow within the original text. Clicking a highlighted spot opens a small tooltip: the phrase in the original at the top, the plain-language translation below, plus the category - tax, social, immigration, housing, legal, insurance or general.

The Bureaucracy Index makes it measurable. It shows as a percentage how many words of your text are jargon, and translates that into a tangible sentence like "Every 7th word is bureaucratic jargon". There is also a rating from "Jargon-free" to "Maximum bureaucracy achieved" - with a wink, but genuinely informative.

With "Copy translation list" you get every detected phrase with its meaning as a list on your clipboard. Handy when you have to write an understandable letter or summary yourself.

The categories help you place a text. One full of "social" phrases probably came from the job center, one with many "housing" terms from tenancy law. The category overview after the analysis shows at a glance which bureaucratic jungle you are currently in.

The Jargon Detector is a comprehension aid, not legal advice. The translations explain what a phrase means in everyday terms - they do not replace the legal interpretation of a specific case. For the actual decision whether to object or sign, a look at the original and, when in doubt, an expert remain essential.

No text to hand? Three examples - a tax notice, a job-center letter and a rental contract - are ready to try. They instantly show how dense bureaucratic German can be and how much clearer the same content becomes in human language.