diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7
index 56a73ec37..07f84028a 100644
--- a/man7/user_namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7
@@ -133,11 +133,11 @@ even if the new namespace is created or joined by the root user
 Note that a call to
 .BR execve (2)
 will cause a process's capabilities to be recalculated in the usual way (see
-.BR capabilities (7)),
-so that usually,
-unless it has a user ID of 0 within the namespace or the executable file
-has a nonempty inheritable capabilities mask,
-it will lose all capabilities.
+.BR capabilities (7)).
+Consequently,
+unless the process has a user ID of 0 within the namespace,
+or the executable file has a nonempty inheritable capabilities mask,
+the process will lose all capabilities.
 See the discussion of user and group ID mappings, below.
 
 A call to