diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
index 41bee79204..273e856910 100644
--- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
@@ -515,14 +515,18 @@ pass the translatable string as argument to another function, you can wrap
 this function inside a lazy call yourself. For example::
 
     from django.utils.functional import lazy
-    from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
     from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 
-    mark_safe_lazy = lazy(mark_safe, str)
+
+    def to_lower(string):
+        return string.lower()
+
+
+    to_lower_lazy = lazy(to_lower, str)
 
 And then later::
 
-    lazy_string = mark_safe_lazy(_("<p>My <strong>string!</strong></p>"))
+    lazy_string = to_lower_lazy(_("My STRING!"))
 
 Localized names of languages
 ----------------------------