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Article #20homepage in English
From: smatsuda
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <864o2h$2je$1@news1.os.xaxon.ne.jp>, "Mashimo" <mashimo@os.xaxon.ne.jp> wrote: :「日本では、web pageのことをホームページといいます」というように :最近は思ってます。英語で言うときは（ないけど）ホームページを :web pageに翻訳する。と。 :それにつけてもおもうのは自分の英語の読解力のなさです。 :home pageと英語でかかれたときに、なにかのページであることは :わかっても、それがなにかイメージできない。 Some Japanese people insist that the word "homepage or home page" is not an authentic live English word, when they are used to mean "(personal) page(s) of world wide web." On the contrary, I have noticed that some regulars of fj.life.in-japan use that very word, "homepage" to indicate the same thing in their signatures. My questions are: 1. Are "homepage" or "home page" acceptable words in conteporary English? 2. How do you, English-speaking peoples, treat newly created words of English? For example, French are famous for thier obsession about the purity of French language. Tell me your case. -- shuji matsuda smatsuda@med.keio.ac.jp
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X-Google-Language: Japanese,JIS X-Google-Thread: f6990,a1b3a24f838755fd X-Google-Attributes: gidf6990,public X-Google-Thread: f6ad8,7abcabaa1aac67fc,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf6ad8,public X-Google-Thread: f6708,7abcabaa1aac67fc,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf6708,public From: smatsuda@med.keio.ac.jp Subject: homepage in English Date: 2000/01/21 Message-ID: <smatsuda-2101002005000001@p208-1.rcn.med.keio.ac.jp> X-Deja-AN: 575671456 References: <3885BCF2.F6FCB392@ix.netcom.com> <864o2h$2je$1@news1.os.xaxon.ne.jp> X-Forwarded: by - (DeleGate/3.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Organization: keio university Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.net.words,japan.lang.english.communication,fj.life.in-japan