--- a/rdf-turtle/index.html	Wed Jul 13 10:14:37 2011 -0700
+++ b/rdf-turtle/index.html	Wed Jul 13 10:21:51 2011 -0700
@@ -181,8 +181,7 @@
 				<p>IRIs may also be abbreviated by using Turtle's <code>@prefix</code>
 				directive that allows declaring a short prefix name for a long prefix
 				of repeated IRIs. This is useful for many RDF vocabularies that are
-				all defined in nearby namespace IRIs, possibly using XML's namespace
-				mechanism that works in a similar fashion.</p>
+				all defined with a common namespace like IRI.</p>
 				
 				<p class="note">While <code>@prefix</code> works somewhat like XML 
 				namespaces the restrictions from XML QNames do NOT apply. <code>leg:3032571</code>
@@ -190,9 +189,9 @@
 
 				<p>Once a prefix such as <code>@prefix foo:
 				&lt;http://example.org/ns#&gt;</code> is defined, any mention of a
-				URI later in the document may use a <em>qualified name</em> that
+				URI later in the document may use a <em>prefixed name</em> that
 				starts <code>foo:</code> to stand for the longer IRI.  So for
-				example, the qualified name <code>foo:bar</code> is a shorthand for
+				example, the prefixed name <code>foo:bar</code> is a shorthand for
 				the IRI <code>http://example.org/ns#bar</code>.</p>
 
 				<pre class="example"><script type="text/turtle"># this is a complete turtle document
@@ -219,7 +218,7 @@
 				but not both.  Languages are indicated by appending the simple
 				literal with <code>@</code> and the language tag.  Datatype IRIs
 				similarly append <code>^^</code> followed by any legal IRI form (full
-				or qualified) as described above to give the datatype IRI. <span class="non-issue">Literals
+				or prefixed) as described above to give the datatype IRI. <span class="non-issue">Literals
 				may be written without either a language tag or a datatype URI as a
 				shortcut for a literal with the type <code>xsd:string</code>.</span>
 				</p>