diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 98e13f7..20fb718 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ All of them have these potentially interesting properties:
  - full IPv6 support
  - TLS support, including client certificates
  - minimal dependencies
- - very compact and easy to hack on
+ - compact and arguably easy to hack on
  - permissive license
 
 degesch
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Notable features:
  - TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?), using secure defaults
  - IRCop authentication via TLS client certificates
  - epoll/kqueue support; this means that it should be able to handle quite
-   a number of user connections
+   a number of concurrent user connections
  - partial IRCv3 support
 
 Not supported: