LinkedIn speak translator

LinkedIn speak, with examples

LinkedIn speak is ordinary news written up for the feed. A layoff, for example, becomes “my role was impacted by the recent restructuring”. Looking for a job is “exploring new opportunities”.

It takes jargon from meetings and adds announcement words like “Thrilled” and “Honored”. The humblebrag, a boast dressed up as modesty, is all over LinkedIn.

Our corporate bullshit generator writes sentences in the same style, with no news in them at all.

Four LinkedIn posts in plain English

Each post below comes with the news behind it:

• “Grateful to lead a team that delivered our best year yet.” The team got a pizza party, one slice per person, and a lip balm with the company logo.
• “Honored to be named Employee of the Month.” A photo by the elevators and the same salary.
• “Incredible energy at today’s team workshop.” Everyone told the organizer it was great, so now it happens every week.
• “Excited to share that I’m starting my next chapter.” Laid off one day before handing in a resignation letter. Severance included.

The hook, the beats, the lesson

Broetry is the name for the LinkedIn style with one sentence per line and a blank line after each. A broetry post opens on a dramatic hook and builds suspense in short beats. Then comes the lesson, followed by a call to action such as “Agree? Repost”.

The proposal that taught B2B sales

In April 2024 a LinkedIn user posted that proposing to his girlfriend taught him seven things about B2B sales. The post drew 810 comments in three days. The parodies keep his closing line, “here’s what it taught me about B2B enterprise sales”, and skip the seven lessons.

The AI translator that went viral

Kagi added LinkedIn Speak to Kagi Translate on March 16, 2026. An AI model does the writing, in whatever style it’s told. The web address took any style name, so people made up their own. The Hacker News thread about LinkedIn Speak reached 1,469 points.

On September 27, 2026, Kagi Translate asked for a free account before it would translate anything. The translator on this page needs no account, and what you type stays on your computer.

How much of LinkedIn a machine wrote

AI detectors flag most long LinkedIn posts. Since July 30, 2026, members can report a post as “seems like AI slop”.

LinkedIn speak in LinkedIn’s own emails

LinkedIn uses LinkedIn speak on its own members too:

• It suggests you connect with everyone who shares your first name.
• It reminds you of work anniversaries for people you met once, with a congratulations ready to send in one click.
• “Updates on your applications” arrive to tell you there aren’t any.
• It counts the searches you appeared in, though showing up in a search doesn’t mean anyone opened your profile.

r/LinkedInLunatics

r/LinkedInLunatics is a subreddit where people share the worst LinkedIn posts. In October 2024 it was almost four times as big as two years before.

How the LinkedIn speak translator works

The LinkedIn speak translator has one box, for your news or a LinkedIn post. Pick LinkedIn speak or Plain English, then press Translate.

• LinkedIn speak looks for words that say what happened, such as fired, hired, promoted and over 500 more. Each word leads to one of 60 kinds of post, and every post ends on “Agree?” and three hashtags. If it can’t tell what your news is, you get a B2B sales lesson.
• Plain English scores each sentence on how it’s written. These push a sentence toward performance: a line left on its own, a fragment for effect, “X isn’t Y. It’s Z.”, a line that would fit any post, an order to the reader and a call to comment. A name, a number, a date or something that happened pushes it the other way. Every sentence that scores as performance is struck out, and you see what share of the post that was. You also get the post’s shape, its news and the point it keeps making. Under that comes the post again, line by line. Each phrase from the LinkedIn phrases list above is swapped for what it means, hashtags are struck out and emoji are deleted.