diff --git a/share/man/man4/gbde.4 b/share/man/man4/gbde.4
index e79589b27dc3..30b76a329324 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/gbde.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/gbde.4
@@ -218,8 +218,9 @@ your imagination.
 For company or institutional use, it is strongly advised to make a copy
 of the master-key and put it under whatever protection you have at your
 means.
-If you fail to do this, a disgruntled employee can not deny access to
-the data by accident.
+If you fail to do this, a disgruntled employee can deny you access to
+the data 
+.Dq by accident.
 (The employee can still intentionally deny access by applying another
 encryption scheme to the data, but that problem has no technical solution).
 .Ss Cryptographic strength