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Comment author: dbaupp 21 October 2011 06:47:49AM 7 points [-]

YouTube channel on the internet

Surely there are unnecessary words in this phrase.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 October 2011 12:26:28AM *  3 points [-]

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.