diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index fbc7a9c80d..7a5b68911a 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -9726,9 +9726,9 @@ Any other framerate is incompatible with this option.
 .TP
 .B tele_src and tele_dest
 Enables arbitrary telecining using Donand Graft's DGPulldown code.
-You need to specify the original and the desired framerate and the
+You need to specify the original and the desired framerate; the
 muxer will make the video stream look like it was encoded at
-<tele_dest> frames per second, patching the nominal output framerate.
+<tele_dest> frames per second, replacing the nominal output framerate.
 It only works with MPEG-2 video when the input framerate is smaller
 than the output framerate and the framerate increase is <= 1.5.
 Example of PAL to NTSC telecining: tele_src=25:tele_dest=30000/1001.