It allows entire webpages to become the topics of sentences and for us to use the webpages as words.

Speaking as an editor (See the hat? It says "Easily peeved."), I don't always see this as a good thing. In the context of a conversation, it's appropriate to use pronouns when appropriate. When writing a web page, the destination of a hyperlink doesn't provided the needed context to unravel the antecedent of the pronoun used as a link title.

For a bad example, see this.

For a good example, see the W3C style manual's guide to linking within documents.

One of the flaws of the Everything Engine -- a flaw which Wiki deliberately avoided -- is that it encourages poor link titles in some cases. That can work out in ironic writing as found on E2, but it can obscure technical, precise writing as PM deserves.

In reply to Re: Chatterbox Linguistics by chromatic
in thread Chatterbox Linguistics by jZed

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