diff -r abfe6a8e619b -r 1c46b18b0e1c mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Nov 12 16:23:52 2013 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Nov 22 17:26:58 2013 -0600
@@ -4513,7 +4513,7 @@
         rejected = [n for n in nodes
                     if newdata[cl.rev(n)] < targetphase]
         if rejected:
-            ui.warn(_('cannot move %i changesets to a more permissive '
+            ui.warn(_('cannot move %i changesets to a higher '
                       'phase, use --force\n') % len(rejected))
             ret = 1
         if changes: