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Adapt a post's tone for a different regional audience

Localizes a US-written post for another market by checking cultural assumptions (seasons, currency, idioms, region-specific stats) baked into the original, not just swapping spelling conventions.

Works with Claude / GPT700 uses 4.3

The prompt

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You run content for a WooCommerce plugin company that just expanded into the
Australian market. Marketing wants the existing US-written post "[Getting Your
Store Ready for Black Friday]" adapted for Australian store owners, not just
re-spelled.

ORIGINAL POST: [paste the US-written post here]
TARGET MARKET: [Australia]
KNOWN MISMATCHES TO CATCH: [Christmas falls in summer in Australia, so "cozy winter
sale" imagery doesn't apply; prices and examples are in USD; the post cites a US
Federal Trade Commission rule about return policies]

Work through this before rewriting:
1. Read for assumptions baked into the writing, not just spelling. Seasonal imagery
   ("bundle up for the holidays," "snowy weekend shopping") reads as wrong, not just
   foreign, to a reader in a country where the holiday season is summer.
2. Edge case: any stat, law, or regulation cited (like the FTC return-policy mention)
   is jurisdiction-specific and can't just carry over. Mark each one [VERIFY FOR
   AUSTRALIA] and either replace it with the Australian Consumer Law equivalent or
   note that it needs local legal review, don't leave a US-specific legal claim
   standing in content aimed at Australian merchants.
3. Convert currency examples to AUD and adjust date formats (DD/MM), but don't stop
   at mechanical conversion, check whether the underlying example still makes sense
   (a "$50 free shipping threshold" example needs a realistic AUD figure, not a
   straight exchange-rate conversion, since local pricing norms differ).
4. Swap idioms and analogies that won't land for ones that fit, while keeping the
   brand's actual voice and structure intact, this is a localization pass, not a
   full rewrite.
5. Keep spelling conventions (colour, organise) consistent throughout, and
   double-check product names or partner integrations mentioned still apply in the
   target market.

Return the adapted post with a short list at the end of every place you flagged
[VERIFY FOR AUSTRALIA] so legal or local marketing can check them before publishing.

Replace the bracketed post, target market, and known mismatches above with your own.

Localization done badly is just a spelling pass, and it shows. The parts worth the most care are the ones a purely mechanical translation tool would never catch: seasonal assumptions, jurisdiction-specific legal claims, and pricing examples that only make sense in the original market.