I was drafting a message to a colleague in French — someone I'd worked with for two years but never quite knew how to place on the formality dial. I ran it through Google Translate, got one sentence back, and had no idea if it read as warm, cold, or weirdly stiff. I sent it anyway. I still don't know how it landed. That's the actual problem with literal translation tools: they return one answer and leave you to guess whether it fits the moment. But in almost any language, the same thought exists in at least three registers — one you'd use with a close friend, one for a colleague, one for someone you're trying to show respect. The gap between those isn't just vocabulary. It's whether you sound like you understand the relationship. So I built konid. You describe what you want to say, and it returns three options ordered casual to formal, with each register explained and a note on the nuance between them.…