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diff --git a/presentation/bdd/01_slide.md b/presentation/bdd/01_slide.md
diff --git a/presentation/bdd_with_ragel/01_slide.md b/presentation/bdd_with_ragel/01_slide.md
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-# BDD with Ragel
+# BDD (or TDD, or software development, or whatever) 
+* with Ragel
 
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 * Get Ragel parsing _something_

diff --git a/presentation/introduction/01_slide.md b/presentation/introduction/01_slide.md
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 # Ragel
 * A tool for building parsers...
 * ...by specifying state machines...
-* ...with regular expressions.
+* ...in a regular language.
 
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 # Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." 

diff --git a/presentation/introduction/02_slide.md b/presentation/introduction/02_slide.md
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 # Semantic Failure, Syntactic Confusion
 * Failures with regular expressions are usually _semantic_
-* (This doesn't mean the syntax is good)
+* (This doesn't mean the syntax is that great)
 * Two causes of confusion
 
 .notes The primary source is that, well, Regexen are confusing
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 # Syntax
-* Ragel makes it easier to visualize what is happening when things go wrong
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+* Character for character, few things produce complexity like a regular expression
+* If only there were a way to visualize what it is they create...
 
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 # Thinking About Matching
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 # State Machines
-* The regex characters are the _transitions_
+* Characters in the regex are the _transitions_
 * The characters of input are the _events_
-* The _states_ are generated by the compiler
+* The _states_ are determined by the compiler
 
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 # Example: /abc/

diff --git a/presentation/ragel_syntax/01_slide.md b/presentation/ragel_syntax/01_slide.md
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diff --git a/presentation/showoff.json b/presentation/showoff.json
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 { "name": "Consuming Gherkin", "sections": [ 
   {"section":"introduction"},
   {"section":"ragel_syntax"},
-  {"section":"bdd"},
   {"section":"bdd_with_ragel"},
   {"section":"why_ragel"},
   {"section":"when_ragel"},