diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,13 +47,11 @@ Other key designs are:
 * do not rewrite the C library and just wrap around it (for example don't rewrite sort but stable sort),
 * do not make users pay the cost of what they don't need.
 
-
-Due to the nature of the C language, 'type safe' means that a proper warning
-shall be generated by the compiler in case of wrong type passed as
-arguments to the functions (and not errors). You can also request
-the compiler to transform all warnings into errors to get proper errors
-too if you want.
-
+Due to the [weak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing#Pointers)  nature of the C language for pointers,
+[type safe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety)
+means that at least a warning
+is generated by the compiler in case of wrong type passed as
+container arguments to the functions.
 
 M\*LIB should still be quite-efficient: even if the implementation may not always be state
 of the art, there is no overhead in using this library rather than using