Add-ons
Sprachverstand 0.9.3
by HyperCriSiS
Removes gender notation from German websites: asterisks, colons and Binnen-I are converted locally. Customizable, no tracking.
About this Add-on
Your emails. Your language.
Sprachverstand removes gender asterisks, gender colons, internal capital I forms (Binnen-I), and other supported forms of gender-inclusive writing from German-language emails. You decide which rules are applied – directly in Thunderbird and without external language services.
Here's what text looks like with Sprachverstand:
• Nutzer:innen → Nutzer
• Mitarbeiter*innen → Mitarbeiter
• NutzerInnen → Nutzer
• Student*innen → Studenten
• Nutzerinnen und Nutzer → Nutzer
Paired gender forms and selected expressions such as “Studierende” can also be converted according to your settings.
Read emails your way:
When you open a message, Sprachverstand adjusts the displayed text. The stored original email remains unchanged. If you disable the extension, the original text is restored in open messages.
The toolbar icon gives you access to the most important features:
• Enable or disable the extension
• Select individual rule groups
• Display the number of corrections
• Review replacements in an overview
• Open advanced settings
You can also choose whether image descriptions and accessibility labels, as well as text within quotation marks, should be processed.
Optional: Correct replies and forwarded messages
If you choose to enable this feature, Sprachverstand corrects the actual draft text once when you open a reply or forwarded message. You can then edit and send the message as usual.
This feature is disabled by default. The additional permission to read and modify messages in the compose window is requested only when you enable it.
The same selected rule groups, personal exceptions, and custom replacements apply as when reading messages. The original received email remains unchanged. When forwarding a message as an attachment, the attached original message is not modified.
Personal exceptions and custom replacements:
Want to keep certain words or phrases unchanged? Add them as personal exceptions. These take priority over replacements.
Custom replacements let you define additional adjustments. The preview in the advanced settings shows you the result before saving and helps identify potential conflicts.
You can export your general settings to a JSON file and import them again later. Consent for the optional correction of replies and forwarded messages remains separate on each device.
Controlled text processing:
Sprachverstand takes supported writing patterns and grammatical context into account. Unmarked feminine forms such as “Professorin” or “Politikerinnen” remain unchanged. URLs, technical content, and source code are excluded from regular processing.
Local and private:
All language processing takes place within Thunderbird on your device.
• No external language or AI services
• No tracking
• No telemetry
• No advertising
• No transmission of message text to the developer or external services
Your settings are stored locally by default.
Open source and customizable:
Sprachverstand is open source and licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.
Source code and release notes:
https://github.com/HyperCriSiS/Sprachverstand
Report bugs or missing replacements:
https://github.com/HyperCriSiS/Sprachverstand/issues
Sprachverstand removes gender asterisks, gender colons, internal capital I forms (Binnen-I), and other supported forms of gender-inclusive writing from German-language emails. You decide which rules are applied – directly in Thunderbird and without external language services.
Here's what text looks like with Sprachverstand:
• Nutzer:innen → Nutzer
• Mitarbeiter*innen → Mitarbeiter
• NutzerInnen → Nutzer
• Student*innen → Studenten
• Nutzerinnen und Nutzer → Nutzer
Paired gender forms and selected expressions such as “Studierende” can also be converted according to your settings.
Read emails your way:
When you open a message, Sprachverstand adjusts the displayed text. The stored original email remains unchanged. If you disable the extension, the original text is restored in open messages.
The toolbar icon gives you access to the most important features:
• Enable or disable the extension
• Select individual rule groups
• Display the number of corrections
• Review replacements in an overview
• Open advanced settings
You can also choose whether image descriptions and accessibility labels, as well as text within quotation marks, should be processed.
Optional: Correct replies and forwarded messages
If you choose to enable this feature, Sprachverstand corrects the actual draft text once when you open a reply or forwarded message. You can then edit and send the message as usual.
This feature is disabled by default. The additional permission to read and modify messages in the compose window is requested only when you enable it.
The same selected rule groups, personal exceptions, and custom replacements apply as when reading messages. The original received email remains unchanged. When forwarding a message as an attachment, the attached original message is not modified.
Personal exceptions and custom replacements:
Want to keep certain words or phrases unchanged? Add them as personal exceptions. These take priority over replacements.
Custom replacements let you define additional adjustments. The preview in the advanced settings shows you the result before saving and helps identify potential conflicts.
You can export your general settings to a JSON file and import them again later. Consent for the optional correction of replies and forwarded messages remains separate on each device.
Controlled text processing:
Sprachverstand takes supported writing patterns and grammatical context into account. Unmarked feminine forms such as “Professorin” or “Politikerinnen” remain unchanged. URLs, technical content, and source code are excluded from regular processing.
Local and private:
All language processing takes place within Thunderbird on your device.
• No external language or AI services
• No tracking
• No telemetry
• No advertising
• No transmission of message text to the developer or external services
Your settings are stored locally by default.
Open source and customizable:
Sprachverstand is open source and licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.
Source code and release notes:
https://github.com/HyperCriSiS/Sprachverstand
Report bugs or missing replacements:
https://github.com/HyperCriSiS/Sprachverstand/issues
