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 ## Background
 
 pnpm uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk.
-When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 packages using lodash, you will have
-100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk
-and a hard link will put it into the `node_modules` where it should be installed.
+When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version
+of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a
+single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the `node_modules` where it should
+be installed.
 
 As a result, you save gigabytes of space on your disk and you have a lot faster installations!
 If you'd like more details about the unique `node_modules` structure that pnpm creates and