-be reinserted in this way (you can, however, undo a deletion--see below).
-Reinsertion of killed text is called "yanking". Generally, the
-commands that can remove a lot of text kill the text (they are set up so
-that you can yank the text), while the commands that remove just one
-character, or only remove blank lines and spaces, do deletion (so you
-cannot yank that text). <DEL> and C-d do deletion in the simplest
-case, with no argument. When given an argument, they kill instead.
+be reinserted in this way (you can, however, undo a deletion--see
+below). Reinsertion of killed text is called "yanking". (Think of it
+as yanking back, or pulling back, some text that was taken away.)
+Generally, the commands that can remove a lot of text kill the text
+(they are set up so that you can yank the text), while the commands
+that remove just one character, or only remove blank lines and spaces,
+do deletion (so you cannot yank that text). <DEL> and C-d do deletion
+in the simplest case, with no argument. When given an argument, they
+kill instead.