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In article <86c5ci$nr7$1@nwms2.odn.ne.jp>, "Ben Bullock" <hayamasa@syd.odn.ne.jp> wrote:

:Takuya ASADA <asada@pooh.isoternet.org> wrote in message
:news:ASADA.00Jan22031343@pooh.isoternet.org...
:> > 日本人は無差別に全部のWWWページをホームページ」といいます。でも英語で
:> > は一番中心のWWWページだけしかホームページといいません。
:>
:> 何故そういう嘘を言う人が多いのか、常々疑問に思っているのですが…。
:
:私は何回かこういう使い方を拝見しました。　何が嘘でしょうか。

Hi, Ben.  Welcome back to Japan.
You should know that AsaTaku is not Kaminsky. 

In that above sentence AsaTaku is refering to the English usage,
not the Japanese usage of that word.  I am sure that he has no
doubt about your description of the Japanese one.


I received personal responses from two people.
Thank you for your responses, though I prefer responses via news.

The one wrote:
:Hi, Shuji.  I think both are fine in American english.  I had thought it
:was too new to be formalized, but the online dictionary at www.m-w.com
:lists "home page."  And nobody I know says "personal page"--always home
:page (or homepage)--though I'm sure it would be understood.  "Web page" is
:often used interchangably.    

The other wrote:
:In my opinion, yes, they are.  They would be used by a newscaster in 
:a report, and everyone would think that was fine.

In that online dictionary of m-w.com lists "home page" as he says above:
:Main Entry: home page
:Function: noun
:Date: 1992
:the page typically encountered first at a World Wide Web site 
:that usually contains links to the other pages of the site or to
:other sites 

The above explanation goes well with Ben's.

As is written in the first response, if "web page" is used interchangably
with "home page," the distinction between "www pages in general" and
"the first page of www pages" might be less clear than Ben's explanation.
Any way, Ben is British. ;)

Both responses were from Americans, and they expressed rather relaxed
attitude towards these newly created net words.

Hope this helps.
-- 
shuji matsuda smatsuda@med.keio.ac.jp