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Encarta World English Dictionary の定義を引用します。　(あまり評判の良くない
辞書ですが、新語を調べる時には便利です）

home page n.
1. WEB SITE OPENING PAGE the opening page of an Internet Web site.
2. PERSONAL SITE ON INTERNET somebody's personal Web site on the Internet,
often containing personal data, photographs, or contact information.

Web page, web page n.
a computer file, encoded in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and containing
text, graphics files, and sound files, that is accessible through the World
Wide Web.
Every Web page has a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL), or address.

home page 2 の定義が　 "(personal) page(s) of world wide web"  に当てはまる
ようです。

enochan


<smatsuda@med.keio.ac.jp> wrote in message
news:smatsuda-2101002005000001@p208-1.rcn.med.keio.ac.jp...
> 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