[NEWS: Brad Pitt on Marriage Rights]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060908/ap_en_...eople_brad_pitt

Brad Pitt: I'll marry when everyone can

Fri Sep 8, 3:10 PM ET

Brad Pitt, ever the social activist, says he won't be marrying Angelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped.

"Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands Sept. 19.

In the article he reflects on "fifteen things I think everyone should know."

Though Shiloh, the world-famous daughter of Pitt and girlfriend/earth mother Angelina Jolie, hogged much attention upon her birth in May, Pitt says he "cannot imagine life" without adopted children, Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1.

"They're as much of my blood as any natural born, and I'm theirs," says Pitt. "That's all I can say about it. I can't live without them. So: Anyone considering (adoption), that's my vote."

Pitt, who plays a world traveler in the upcoming drama "Babel," subscribes to a laid-back parenting style.

"I try not to stifle them in any way," he says. "If it's not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore. Sometimes that means they're quite rambunctious."

Lucky kids.

"I feel it's really important to have that time to sit and talk to them," he continues. "I really like that last minute before they fade off. And always give them a heads-up before you jerk them out of something. You need to tell them, like, `You have three more minutes.'"

___

Copyright ? 2006 The Associated Press.

[Pain Inside Of Me]

I like it. Interesting rhyme structure, also unusual word pattern with the elipses. Not sure about the elipses but did like the rhyme structure. The more understated phrases were, conversely, more powerful for me.

TR

[NEWS: Stingray kills 'Crocodile Hunter']

Condolances to those Forum members in Oz.

TR

Stingray kills 'Crocodile Hunter'

SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Steve Irwin, the TV presenter known as the "Crocodile Hunter," has died after being stung by a stingray in a marine accident off Australia's north coast.

Media reports say Irwin was diving in waters off Port Douglas, north of Cairns, when the incident happened on Monday morning.

Irwin, 44 was killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest, according to Cairns police sources. Irwin was filming an underwater documentary at the time.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality Monday morning off Port Douglas, according to Australian media. (Watch scenes of Irwin, known for his his enthusiasm, support for conservation -- 2:49)

Queensland Police Services also confirmed Irwin's death and said his family had been notified. Irwin was director of the Australian Zoo in Queensland.

He is survived by his American-born wife Terri and their two children, Bindi Sue, born 1998, and Robert (Bob), born December 2003.

Irwin became a popular figure on Australian and international television through Irwin's close handling of wildlife, most notably the capture and relocation of crocodiles.

Irwin's enthusiastic approach to nature conservation and the environment won him a global following. He was known for his exuberance and use of the catch phrase "Crikey!"

But his image suffered a setback in January 2004 when he held his then 1-month-old baby Bob while feeding a crocodile at his Australian zoo. (Full story)

In a statement released to Australian media, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer expressed his sorrow and said that he was fond of Irwin and was very appreciative of all the work he had done in promoting Australia overseas.

In 2003, Irwin spoke to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Australian Story television program about how he was perceived in his home country.

"When I see what's happened all over the world, they're looking at me as this very popular, wildlife warrior Australian bloke," he said, the ABC reported.

"And yet back here in my own country, some people find me a little bit embarrassing. "You know, there's this... they kind of cringe, you know, 'cause I'm coming out with 'Crikey' and 'Look at this beauty.'"

Find this article at:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/0...rwin/index.html

[News & Views - September 3, 2006]

You rock, Dude!

Kisses, and more kisses...

TR

[measure of love]

I like this the best out of honeysuckle and artwork. This is really good. It's no overdramatic or contrived. Non-rhyming couplets . . . . Well, I think contrived is a bad word. Even though it's what I meant. For interpertation purposes "distant" would be better.

Well, the stanzas are rhyming but thanks for saying they don't seem contrived. I contrived hard for that very effect.

The point that I wanted to make was: THIS has feeling. And I like it.

Thanks! Praise from on high...(and highly qualified, lol)

But the last line irked me. Because, it doesn't have the same amount of beats that the other verses had.

Um, as far as I know, the last line of each stanza has six beats.

I totally empathise with this.

Again, thanks, Gabe!

i also wanted to point out the last verse has the only contractions in the whole poem.

Okay...you don't like contractions? I use contractions sometimes to give lines a more natural feel or flow, and they do often come at the end of a poem, or at least at the end of an idea.

Thanks for the comments, I liked this poem best from yesterday, too, though I don't think it's my best effort. It does come from experience, though I've been on both sides of that behavior. My current beaux doesn't do this, thank goodness. In large quantities, it can cause gastric distress, aside from killing off the very love it tries to measure.

Kisses...

TR

[artwork]

artwork

color me lonely

in gray shades of blue

color me longing

for nights spent with you

draw me with raindrops

to darken my skies

sketch in the sorrow

that saddens my eyes

color me empty

a glass left unfilled

color me broken

a love unfulfilled

paint me in heartache

from palettes of tears

impassioned pigments

of blood, sweat and fears

dip in your brushes

and wash me in blues

color me crying

use misery?s hues

color me lonesome

in blue shades of gray

sad are the colors

when love fades away

*

[measure of love]

measure of love

you ask me if I love you

you measure each embrace

weigh my words against your past

distrust my smiling face

examine close each offering

for motive and intent

parse apart my lines of love

and ask me what I meant

you price each loving present

you bite to test my coin

you question all my kisses

hold back when we conjoin

I wonder if you see me

or hear the sounds I speak

love is dying on the vine

ill nourished by critique

why can?t you simply swallow

the sweets I feed to you

distrust is hard and hollow

love?s easier to chew

*

[honeysuckle]

honeysuckle

in my dreams, I walk a path

lined with blooming boys

leaning down, I pluck the stems

bring them to my lips

scent of springtime, April blush

buds against my tongue

I tease apart the petals

to taste each center

sweet honeysuckle boyfriends

blossom in my night

on waking, I brush away

flowered memories

*

[Stats]

This was just fascinating. These are the top seven posters according to the member list. James talks the most (days/used v total/posts) and Blue is a veritable chatterbox. Graeme and I joined almost at the same time and we're neck-and-neck just behind TR who is also in our graduating class.

About a third of my posts are poems in the Poetry Forum, and a lot of others are admin notices about stories, etc. Still, I'm not quiet, I admit that.

Kisses...

TR

[Speaking of Mother's]

Looking over it again, I think I should change the title. It really doesn't fit the piece.

Well, you should definitely take out the apostrophe.

TR

[night scents]

night scents

listening hard

I lie awake

looking at the

shadowed ceiling

open windows

and nighttime breeze

bring lonely scents

of midnight blooms

I listen for

your soft footstep

but only hear

my own heartbreak

*

[Does a picture/song/etc ever make you want to write?]

Sometimes, as you say, seeing a picture or hearing a song, might make me write but more likely a whole album, as Elecivil says, or a film. Or another writer. Still, it's less common than an idea, person, line of dialogue, etc, that pops into my head without me knowing its genesis...the way Angel de la Torres at the Green Room mirror did.

I listen to specific albums or groups for different characters in Drama Club, some of which is reflected in the lyric quotes interspersed throughout it. The correlation between a single song is, for me, more likely to be a poem...and probably extemporizing and expanding off of one image or word in it.

Now, music inspires me and I listen to it when writing some things (like Drama Club)...for most, I turn OFF the music, esp when proofing. I can hear my own prose better if someone else's lyrics aren't in my head...nonlyric music is fine, generally. Still, I find silence helpful in writing some stories, like the recent A Moment in Memphis. If I'm creating a mood, I like silence so that I can better hear the internal voices and music, the rhythms of the prose being created.

Sometimes I hear some snippet of conversation or see a face out in Real Life and that inspires me. Or gets me thinking. Same with a striking image, like the fresh-washed buildings of downtown Dallas after a rainstorm...though those inspire poems, not prose. Maybe the inspiration is different, less complex and more visceral for poetry?

I'm probably more often inspired by someone else's prose, not to copy it but to take a single line or idea and expand it or create a gay version of it or...something. Sometimes just the rhythms of someone's prose put me in the mood to write something in particular...whether in that rhythm or not, I'm not sure. Maybe some authors remind me of my own prose rhythms?

Am I making myself clear with that word 'rhythms'? Does everyone 'hear' their prose in their head, not just dialogue but narration, too? Patterns of sounds individual to particular stories, scenes or characters? I guess the cumulative rhymths would be an author's writing 'style'.

I'd think everyone 'heard' their dialogue, else how are they writing it to sound right? Sometimes I even speak lines aloud when writing, to hear their spoken sound...though that's more for established characters from Drama Club or Oscar Wilde.

Have I mentioned my own titles enough times yet?

Kisses...

TR

[see you]

see you

this morning, I stood staring blind

into the eyes of the man shaving

across the bathroom countertop

from me

and for the life of me, I couldn?t

quite remember who he was, his name

or even if he was a friend

of mine

that man, he shyly smiled at me

as if he, too, were a bit confused;

his puzzled face stared out into

my own

at last, as I just shook my head

turned away to start the day anew,

a whisper soft behind me said

?see you?

*

[Welcome to the Bull Pen!]

one question...is bullpen an animal reference, a 'shooting the bull' reference or a baseball reference?

One of the mysteries of the game of baseball is the origin of the term bullpen, the name for the area in which relief pitchers warm up. Several competing theories vie for the origin. About all we know for sure is the earliest recorded use of the term to refer to the pitchers' warm-up area was not until 1915, in Baseball Magazine, in Edward Nichols's "Baseball Terminology."

Another 1915 use is from Lester Chadwick's Baseball Joe in the Big League:

He took the ball, and nodding to Rad, who was not playing, went out to the bullpen.

The theory that is best supported by the linguistic evidence is that the baseball use of bullpen is simply a specialized use of the term which already carried the meaning of a waiting area. Bullpen has a long use meaning an enclosed holding area, dating back a more than a century before the baseball sense arose. In 1809 making a reference to 1780, Parson Mason Weems, in his Life of General Francis Marion wrote:

The tories were all handcuffed two and two, and confined together under a sentinel, in what was called a bull-pen made of pine trees, cut down so . . . as to form . . . a pen or enclosure.

Bullpen was used throughout the 19th century to mean a jail cell or prison. By the beginning of the 20th century, the term was being used to refer to any enclosed waiting area. From O. Henry's 1903 Works:

Unlock him . . . and let him come to the bull-pen . . . the warden's outer office.

The association of relief pitchers with both big, strong animals and convicts undoubtedly had appeal for some as well. So the term would work on several levels.

But there is also evidence of the waiting area sense being used in baseball in the 19th century as well, only not for the relievers' warm-up area. In some 19th century ballparks, spectators would be admitted to a fenced-off area in foul territory (where many modern bullpens are today) where they could stand and watch the game. This area was known as a bullpen. From the 7 May 1877 Cincinnati Enquirer:

The bull pen at the Cincinnati grounds with its "three-for-a-quarter" crowd has lost its usefullness.

Another popular theory is that around the turn of the century relievers would warm up near the outfield fence, where signs for Bull Durham Tobacco. The picture of the bull, associated with the pitchers, who were usually the largest and strongest members of the team, was enough to create the imagery for the term. Beginning in 1909, Bull Durham ran a promotion offering $50 to any player who hit one of the signs with a fairly batted ball during a game. That year there were 50 parks with such signs. The next year there were 150 such parks.

The 1988 movie Bull Durham depicts such a sign in a modern minor league park and a prize of a steak dinner for a player who hits it with a ball:

Catcher "Crash" Davis: Look at that, he hit the fucking bull! Guy gets a free steak! You having fun yet?

Pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh: Oh, yeah. Havin' a blast.

Davis: Good.

LaLoosh: God, that sucker teed off on that like he knew I was gonna throw a fastball!

Davis: He did know.

LaLoosh: How?

Davis: I told him.

Given the earlier uses of bullpen to mean a waiting area, especially the 1877 Cincinnati citation, it seems unlikely that the Bull Durham signs were the origin of the term, although it is easy to see how people could associate the name of the area with the sign and the signs may have played a role in popularizing the term.

Finally, no less than Casey Stengel weighed in on the subject. Stengel's explanation is probably more indicative of his opinion of relief pitchers than of the term's origin.

So we'll just leave off with Stengel's own words from 1967:

You could look it up and get eighty different answers, but we used to have pitchers who could pitch fifty or sixty games a year and the extra pitchers would just sit around shooting the bull, and no manager wanted all that gabbing on the bench. So he put them in this kind of pen in the outfield to warm up, it looked like a place to keep cows or bulls.

(Source: New Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Historical Dictionary of American Slang)

[serenade for strings]

serenade for strings

I look into your eyes

and see, in their depths, another man-

that bright image isn?t mine

your hand, held, skin so warm

yet there is a coolness to the air-

frosty chill, winter of the heart

and here I was, so sure

that you, in your depths, belonged to me-

I?m a fool, what can I say

I saw you look at him

vibrato, tremolo, shivering strings-

harp in the wind, you are his

*

http://tragicrabbit.org/poems/serenade_for_strings.htm

[NEWS: Don't kill Harry Potter, authors urge Rowling]

Good books, okay movies.

Very good books, and they get significantly better after the first two. They also have an obvious appeal to queer readers. One of the first things I thought of was how like the GLBT community the magical community was: hidden in plain site, riddled with in-references and jargon, and subject to outsider harassment and prejudice.

The entire Weasley family is adorable...esp the twins.

Kisses...

TR

PS. The movies are okay.

[Kodak Colors]

http://tragicrabbit.org/poems/Kodak_Colors.htm

Kodak Colors

Dancing through the sprinkler,

Making ice cream on the lawn;

Summers last forever

In those boyhood days long gone.

Winters by the fireplace,

Silver-tinseled Christmas trees,

Cocoa in the kitchen:

Such sweet yesterdays are these.

Faded shades in Kodak

Color childhood memories,

Time tarnishes the tears

Dulls down sorrow by degrees.

Till you?re left with pictures

And bright moments in your mind;

All anguish of young years

Left deliberately behind.

If we let truth guide us

And remembered how youth hurt,

Would we see with clear eyes?

Toss nostalgia to the dirt?

Easier to recall

As such simpler saccharine days,

Painless just to think back

Through a reminiscent haze.

We shy from honesty,

Hide hard truths up high on shelves,

Keep closer to our hearts

Tender lies we tell ourselves.

From the breakfast table

Until tucked in at bedtime:

Each day?s paradise lost,

Segued into sleep sublime.

We say we would go back

And be children if we could,

How can years so bitter

Become so misunderstood?

Friends who say they hate you,

Boys who never let you play;

Punishment and penance,

These all contradict clich?.

Homework, chores and curfews

Secret plots to run away,

Yearning for acceptance

Are what filled our childhood days.

We banish remembrance

All but dreamlike Kodak scenes,

Cling to happy moments

But stay blind to what they mean.

*

[NEWS: Don't kill Harry Potter, authors urge Rowling]

She can't kill him off. Imagine what it'd do to the movie franchise.

I don't see that it would do anything to the 'movie franchise'. Almost no one who says they are fans of the movies even read the books, the vast majority do not and have no interest in reading them.

Not that it should or would matter to her, the book author.

Can you honestly say people would stop buying tickets to new HP films and collecting the merchandise bc Harry dies in Book 7? They'd not even be required to have Harry die in movie 7, just bc he does in the books.

She'd be smart to kill him off, if she's serious about not writing any more HP books. As it is, HP fanfic (a.k.a. bad HP writing by fans who pay no copyright fees) is pretty well out of control...

At this pt, if it were me, I'd be more inclined to kill him off just because of the supposed fan reaction.

Things like this article seem more publicity stunts than real news, don't you think? I mean, come on. Irving and King have to contact Rowling via API? They don't have email?

Irving's Garp dies at the end of The World According to Garp. Did that make the movie less popular? No. King's Carrie dies at the end of Carrie. Did that make people not buy tickets, did it cause moviegoers to not enjoy the film or not be in suspense or scared? No.

It's not like most moviegoers read books.

Kisses...

TR

[NEWS: Don't kill Harry Potter, authors urge Rowling]

Don't kill Harry Potter, authors urge Rowling

By Claudia Parsons

Tue Aug 1, 1:14 PM ET

Two of America's top authors, John Irving and Stephen King, made a plea to J.K. Rowling on Tuesday not to kill the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter in the final book of the series, but Rowling made no promises.

"My fingers are crossed for Harry," Irving said at a joint news conference before a charity reading by the three writers at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

The author of "The World According to Garp" and a string of other bestsellers said he and King felt like "warm-up bands" for Rowling, who is working on the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series, and who has said two characters will die.

King, who shot to fame in 1974 with "Carrie," said he had confidence that Rowling would be "fair" to her hero.

"I don't want him to go over the Reichenbach Falls," King said in a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's effort to kill off the character of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Pressure from fans eventually led Conan Doyle to resurrect Holmes, who was found in a later story to have survived.

Rowling, a Briton whose books have sold 300 million copies worldwide according to her publishers, said she was well into the process of writing the final book.

"I feel quite liberated," she said.

"I can resolve the story now and it's fun in a way it wasn't before because finally I've reached my resolution, and I think some people will loathe it and some people will love it, but that's how it should be."

"We're working toward the end I always planned but a couple of characters I expected to survive have died and one character got a reprieve," she said, declining to elaborate.

Asked about the wisdom of killing off fictional characters, Rowling said she didn't enjoy killing the major character who died in book six -- for the sake of those who haven't read it yet she avoided naming the victim -- but she said the conventions of the genre demanded the hero go on alone.

"I understand why an author would kill a character from the point of view of not allowing others to continue writing after the original author is dead," she added, leaving the door open to the worst fears of some fans -- that Harry could die.

King recalled that when he had a character kick a dog to death in his novel "Dead Zone" he received more letters of complaint than ever, to his surprise.

"You want to be nice and say 'I'm sorry you didn't like that,' but I'm thinking to myself number one, he was a dog not a person, and number two, the dog wasn't even real," he said.

"I made that dog up, it was a fake dog, it was a fictional dog, but people get very, very involved," King said.

Rowling noted that Irving had killed off many more characters than she had.

"When fans accuse me of sadism, which doesn't happen that often, I feel I'm toughening them up to go on and read John and Stephen's books," she said. "I think they've got to be toughened up somehow. It's a cruel literary world out there."

Copyright ? 2006 Reuters Limited

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060801/people...e_nm/rowling_dc

[SomeTHING Interesting]

I like it! :idea1: I started mine but no idea how long it'll take to finish.

But it would be easier to upload your library if you could call up full lists of authors or subjects, then go down and check off a number of them before uploading. The way it's set up, it resets after every single book, so a large library will take a long time to get on record. However, once on record, uploading new books wouldn't be any trouble.

Is there a way to indicate where a book's located in your bookshelves? And can you save the information to disk when you've finished, or is it only available online?

There's one like this for films, too, but it works differently. Among other differences, you download special (free) software to use it.

http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog/download

Guess who recently told me about that? Terry, the real guy who is featured (set when we were both fifteen) in the TR true story Exothermic Reaction, currently listed in AD story section Drawn From Life.

He found me online recently... :hello2:

Ahem, I haven't mentioned that story to him yet. :toothy2:

Kisses...

TR

[purple prose]

http://tragicrabbit.org/poems/Purple%20Prose.htm

purple prose (for george)

most poems speak of passion

undying fires of love;

calm hearts are out of fashion,

loud crows replace the dove

but what I treasure in us

is less the flame and heat,

than this feast without the fuss

that leaves my heart replete

you are my safe-moor harbor,

the still amid the storm,

you are my steady arbor,

the hearth that keeps me warm

I know these lines are missing

the standard words of love:

ardent adjectives for kissing,

avid adverbs thereof

but trust me when I tell you

that what you offer up,

tender acts steadfast and true,

these overfill my cup

with you do I feel peaceful,

with you, there is no pain;

this comfort is so joyful

but harder to explain

you?ll hear no purple prosing

when I describe we two,

but let me say in closing

I need no one but you

*

[sorcery]

http://tragicrabbit.org/poems/sorcery.htm

sorcery

smile at me and sparkle

bewitch me with your charms

make me forget tomorrow

when I?m within your arms

wrap my hand in your hand

weave spells around my heart

please capture me with kisses

beguile me with dark art

keep me in your prison

chained tight with links of love

torment me with tender touch

as soft as any dove

charm me with your laughter

then tempt me with your fire

oh, leave me aching for you

ensorcelled with desire

voodoo in the morning

and glamour in the night

make me your spellbound prisoner

bedeviled with delight

enchantment comes easy

when I?m alone with you

you conjure up a potion

that is a heady brew

bind me with your magic

or trust me not to go

how much you fascinate me

you just don?t seem to know

high up in your towers

down in your dungeons deep

I dream of you in daytime

I sing you when I sleep

smile your sparkles at me

bewitch me with your spell

and I will never leave you

for you have loved me well

*

[Song My, by TR]

Now under the current Gods Own Party leadership... similar stuff happens in Afghanistan and Iraq with even incursions into Pakistan.  With Fox and CNN the current media leaders jostling for viewership and each trying to grab more conservative viewers... the criticism -and coverage- is muted.  

Well, I think that's exactly it, the federal government learned its lesson from Vietnam and Watergate and now manages to prevent critique...as well as full and honest coverage. Anything uncomplimentary to the administration is nixed...long before it hits API, TV news, net news sources, etc.

I mean, contrast the situation with Fox News' White House stamp of approval against the hero-worship accorded (mid-1970s) The New York Times for breaking that scandal, for speaking out against the then current administration. Contrast CNN's war coverage with the news coverage, even by Army journalists and photographers, of Vietnam from '68 onward.

And so, then what happened?

For the first and only time, a President had to apologize, face impeachment and actually resign his elected office to avoid prosecution. For the first time and only time, public opinion forced a country OUT of a (undeclared) war.

I think steps are taken in all quarters to ensure that public opinion never again be influenced by the facts of any administration's decisions, wars and scandals. Bread and circuses, American Idol, celebrity scandals and an iron fist around the neck of impartial journalism keep us placated, quiescent, numbed to the 'news'.

What a great country we have...or could, if we let it be one. Repressive government, wiretapping citizens, curtailment of civil liberties...isn't that what we were told, while growing up, made other countries inferior to America?

I guess, as in Orwell's 1984, history is fluid, depending upon who is doing the remembering...and why.

Political observation ended... thanks for this poem, TR.  You're attention to recent history earns you the prose and poetry title of AwesomeHistorian.

Thanks, O Awesome One! I do think certain times are pivotal in our history, WWII obviously (I assume obviously). Just lately, I've been focusing some on 1968-69. Events of those years shaped our society for decades, and we still bear the marks.

To know ourselves, our times and understand events as they unfold, we must know our history. Surely, knowing something of our recent history, meaning the 20th century, isn't asking too much?

:sad11:

TR

[NEWS: Iranian leader bans usage of foreign words]

The Iranians are not the first to try this:

French stick to plan to ban English

Colin Randall, Paris

July 24, 2006

FRANCE'S battle to repel the invasion of English words and phrases  

Thus is the Battle of Hastings avenged...

TR

[NEWS: Iranian leader bans usage of foreign words]

[Don't even get me started on the 'usage' of 'usage', but the idea of banning words struck me as fascinating. Creepy but fascinating. Of course, many Americans get pissy over the use of languages that aren't English, so I'm not sure our hands are clean, either. Likely the same intent is behind both but banning words, removing words from circulation like money, well, just a tad too Orwellian for this bunny's morning. And, no, this is NOT from an Andy Borowitz column! ~TR]

Iranian leader bans usage of foreign words Sat Jul 29, 9:31 AM ET

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.

The presidential decree, issued earlier this week, orders all governmental agencies, newspapers and publications to use words deemed more appropriate by the official language watchdog, the Farhangestan Zaban e Farsi, or Persian Academy, the Irna official news agency reported.

The academy has introduced more than 2,000 words as alternatives for some of the foreign words that have become commonly used in Iran, mostly from Western languages. The government is less sensitive about Arabic words, because the Quran is written in Arabic.

Among other changes, a "chat" will become a "short talk" and a "cabin" will be renamed a "small room," according to official Web site of the academy.

Copyright ? 2006 The Associated Press.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060729/ap_on_...n_foreign_words