Explain what linting is in the first sentence

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 ![ALE Logo by Mark Grealish - https://www.bhalash.com/](img/logo.jpg?raw=true)
 
-ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine) is a plugin for providing linting in NeoVim
-0.2.0+ and Vim 8 while you edit your text files, and acts as a Vim
-[Language Server Protocol](https://langserver.org/) client.
+ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine) is a plugin for providing linting (checking of
+syntax and semantics) in NeoVim 0.2.0+ and Vim 8 while you edit your text files,
+and acts as a Vim [Language Server Protocol](https://langserver.org/) client.
 
 <img src="img/example.gif?raw=true" alt="A linting example with the darkspectrum color scheme in GVim." title="A linting example with the darkspectrum color scheme in GVim.">