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 # miette
 
-you FAIL miette? you fail her compiler like the unsafe C program? oh! oh! jail
-for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
-
-(I'm sorry, I'll come up with a better pun later.)
+you run miette? You run her code like the software? Oh. Oh! Error code for
+coder! Error code for One Thousand Lines!
 
 ## About