diff --git a/cms/envs/common.py b/cms/envs/common.py
index 40b8bef9ab..05a1b63f5f 100644
--- a/cms/envs/common.py
+++ b/cms/envs/common.py
@@ -218,9 +218,11 @@ STATICFILES_DIRS = [
 TIME_ZONE = 'America/New_York'  # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
 LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'  # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
 
-# We want i18n to be turned off in production, at least until we have full
-# localizations. It's disconcerting for everything on the page to be in English
-# except for one or two strings like "login" which are correctly localized.
+# We want i18n to be turned off in production, at least until we have full localizations.
+# Thus we want the Django translation engine to be disabled. Otherwise even without
+# localization files, if the user's browser is set to a language other than us-en,
+# strings like "login" and "password" will be translated and the rest of the page will be
+# in English, which is confusing.
 USE_I18N = False
 USE_L10N = True
 
diff --git a/lms/envs/common.py b/lms/envs/common.py
index d45f8f8521..69d78764c5 100644
--- a/lms/envs/common.py
+++ b/lms/envs/common.py
@@ -455,9 +455,11 @@ FAVICON_PATH = 'images/favicon.ico'
 TIME_ZONE = 'America/New_York'  # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
 LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en'  # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
 
-# We want i18n to be turned off in production, at least until we have full
-# localizations. It's disconcerting for everything on the page to be in English
-# except for one or two strings like "login" which are correctly localized.
+# We want i18n to be turned off in production, at least until we have full localizations.
+# Thus we want the Django translation engine to be disabled. Otherwise even without
+# localization files, if the user's browser is set to a language other than us-en,
+# strings like "login" and "password" will be translated and the rest of the page will be
+# in English, which is confusing.
 USE_I18N = False
 USE_L10N = True