diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ The default block size (3000) is really high to prevent CPU glitches -
     
 # [Demo brain session](https://static.thentrythis.org/samplebrain/demo.samplebrain)    
 
-Load this using "load session" not "load brain" (sessions contain both
-the target and brain samples).
+Load this file using "load session" not "load brain" (sessions contain
+both the target and brain samples).
     
 # [Manual](docs/manual.md)
 
diff --git a/docs/manual.md b/docs/manual.md
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--- a/docs/manual.md
+++ b/docs/manual.md
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ similarity. It processes a target sample, chopping it up into blocks
 in the same way, and tries to match each block with one in it's brain
 to play in realtime.
 
-This allows you to interpret a sound with a different one. Over time
-developing it, we gradually added more and more tweakable parameters
-until it became slightly out of control.    
+This allows you to interpret a sound with a different one. As we
+worked on it (during 2015 and 2016) we gradually added more and more
+tweakable parameters until it became slightly out of control.
             
 ## Brain tweaks: