It might not be as off-base as you think. There’s a huge selection effect for who would listen to the Great Fugue, and if there’s one thing that YouTube commenters do in spades it’s play signalling games.
Well, without the phrase “on the Internet”, the phrase might be mistaken as having a more limited scope. Someone once told me that Top Gear was “the most popular programme”, and I wondered if he meant the most popular programme in Britain, the most popular programme on that TV channel, or what. I didn’t ask, because I wasn’t sure whether to call it a “programme”, as he did, or a “show”, as I normally would.
We’re now basing judgments of highbrow status-seeking behavior by sampling YouTube commenters?
Oy.
It might not be as off-base as you think. There’s a huge selection effect for who would listen to the Great Fugue, and if there’s one thing that YouTube commenters do in spades it’s play signalling games.
Go look at the page. It may be the only YouTube channel on the internet without grammatical errors.
Surely there are unnecessary words in this phrase.
Well, without the phrase “on the Internet”, the phrase might be mistaken as having a more limited scope. Someone once told me that Top Gear was “the most popular programme”, and I wondered if he meant the most popular programme in Britain, the most popular programme on that TV channel, or what. I didn’t ask, because I wasn’t sure whether to call it a “programme”, as he did, or a “show”, as I normally would.
I was impressed, though I don’t think that’s the only time I’ve seen that.