diff --git a/modules/ROOT/pages/programming-languages/Java-Language.adoc b/modules/ROOT/pages/programming-languages/Java-Language.adoc
index 23a1e7f..176d4ae 100644
--- a/modules/ROOT/pages/programming-languages/Java-Language.adoc
+++ b/modules/ROOT/pages/programming-languages/Java-Language.adoc
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Error classes derive (perhaps indirectly) from
 `java.lang.Throwable`, but not from
 `java.lang.Exception`.
 
-The general exception is that run-time errors are avoided by
+The general expectation is that run-time errors are avoided by
 careful programming (e.g., not dividing by zero). Checked
 exception are expected to be caught as they happen (e.g., when
 an input file is unexpectedly missing). Errors are impossible