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 # Overview
 
-[JSON](http://www.JSON.org/) is a light-weight, language independent, data interchange format.
+[JSON](http://www.JSON.org/) is a light-weight language independent data interchange format.
 
 The JSON-Java package is a reference implementation that demonstrates how to parse JSON documents into Java objects and how to generate new JSON documents from the Java classes.