diff --git a/hints/bad-recursion.md b/hints/bad-recursion.md
index 16d5d7f3e..2d4f6ed9f 100644
--- a/hints/bad-recursion.md
+++ b/hints/bad-recursion.md
@@ -53,9 +53,7 @@ type alias Comment =
 type Responses = Responses (List Comment)
 ```
 
-> Some of you may have recently run into this definition in the [hints for recursive aliases](recursive-alias.md)!
-
-And from there, you may want to be able to turn all the comments into JSON to send back to your server or to store in your database or whatever. So you will probably write some code like this:
+You may have run into this definition in the [hints for recursive aliases](recursive-alias.md)! Anyway, once you have comments, you may want to turn them into JSON to send back to your server or to store in your database or whatever. So you will probably write some code like this:
 
 ```elm
 import Json.Decode as Decode exposing (Decoder)