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Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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Nodes are like shots - argued that here and elsewhere - which means that their syntax is not a matter of internal organisation, nor of joining these already large units to other large units (nodes to nodes). These form syntagmatic chains but this is not syntax. We can be proscriptive about how this should, or should not, be done, but they remain ideological to the extent that they are coercive attempts to define ways of doing - questions of style - rather than integral to intelligibility. "Bad" web sites are still intelligible and readable, just inconvenient.

Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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