diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 2b4e26dd16..29f09b4404 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -29,4 +29,3 @@ supports the ``venv`` module, because the ``make html`` command will create a
 virtual environment and will install the ``Sphinx`` package::
 
     make html
-
diff --git a/documenting.rst b/documenting.rst
index 4b1b76bce7..e1adf835f4 100644
--- a/documenting.rst
+++ b/documenting.rst
@@ -1790,10 +1790,9 @@ Ask on doc-sig, or better, make a PR on the `devguide
 I have a translation, but not on git, what should I do?
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Just ask for help on the doc-sig mailing list and our python-fu, git-fu
-and bash-fu combined will help you create an appropriate repository. If
-you use a tool like transifex don’t worry.  Keeping them in sync is not
-that hard.
+Ask for help on the doc-sig mailing list
+about creating an appropriate repository. 
+Using a tool like transifex can help keep translations in sync.
 
 
 My git hierarchy does not match yours, can I keep it?