minimal unit of hypertext

[David Samuels]

I'd take a stab at saying that the minimal unit in hypertext is the root
lexical item for text searching - what does Adorno say about Beethoven?
Search for that string.  "Art" would get you art, artists, artistic,
artful, etc.  That stops working, though, when you want to find, say
nationalism/istic/ist, in which case you'd search for 'nationalis'.  Or
when different forms take different spellings, like discourse/discursive,
in which case a search for 'disc' might get you into a lot of trouble.

Procrastinatingly yours,



David W. Samuels
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