diff --git a/hexlib/text.py b/hexlib/text.py
index 9a8c219..09ce66d 100644
--- a/hexlib/text.py
+++ b/hexlib/text.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import nltk.corpus
-from hexlib.misc import silent_stdout
+from hexlib.misc import silent_stderr
 from lxml import etree
 from nltk.corpus import stopwords
 from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ get_text = etree.XPath("//text()")
 
 stop_words_en = set(stopwords.words("english"))
 
-with silent_stdout:
+with silent_stderr:
     nltk.download("stopwords")
     nltk.download("wordnet")