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Re: homepage in English

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From: Ben Bullock
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00
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<smatsuda@med.keio.ac.jp> wrote in message
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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?

The difference that may have caused the confusion is that
Japanese people use "home page" for all internet pages indiscriminately.
"home page" is usually just one "start page" for each person or group
with other pages linked to it.

混乱の原因はこういうことかもしれません:
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。

>    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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From: "Ben Bullock" <hayamasa@syd.odn.ne.jp>
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