diff --git a/docs/design_philosophies.txt b/docs/design_philosophies.txt
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 Assume designer competence
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-The template system shouldn't be designed so that templates are displayed
-nicely in WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver. That is too severe of a
-limitation and wouldn't allow the syntax to be as nice as it is. Django expects
-some level of competence in template authors.
+The template system shouldn't be designed so that templates necessarily are
+displayed nicely in WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver. That is too severe of
+a limitation and wouldn't allow the syntax to be as nice as it is. Django
+expects some level of code competence in template authors.
 
 Treat whitespace obviously
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