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Nathan Sharpe (72)
is that an Amstrad?That's a different intern who sent it out by accident. The chimp is only responsible for typing it.
is that an Amstrad?That's a different intern who sent it out by accident. The chimp is only responsible for typing it.
Australian Rugby Union and SANZAR today confirmed thefinalschedule for the second Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship later this year.
.The Championship will continue a huge year for Australian Rugby that sees eight of the top 10 teams in world Rugby, including the Qantas Wallabies, making their way down under
Bahahaha – who on earth says “once in 12 year”? And does the tour come to a close, or does it “end”? Terrible.Six weeks after the highly anticipated, once in 12 year, British & Irish Lions tour comes to a close the Qantas Wallabies will take on their long-time arch rivals, the All Blacks.
Oh dear – this is where poor sentences come to die - commas that could be eliminated with a reworded sentence. Did you know that online articles are supposed to be short and clear?The Test, which will be held at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on Saturday 17 August, will once again kick-off The Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship and the battle for the Bledisloe.
This is just bad writing.The week after the Qantas Wallabies will head to New Zealand for the second leg of the Championship, taking on the All Blacks in Wellington.
Should be a hyphen between ever and improving, don’t need the comma after September…and I’m pretty sure if we joined the above two sentences it’d read better.All four teams will then break for a travel bye before the Qantas Wallabies face the Springboks at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday 7 September.
On Saturday 14 September, the Qantas Wallabies will head west to Perth’s Patersons Stadium to tackle the ever improving Pumas.
Oh no. First of all, there should be an apostrophe after the s in Wallabies. But otherwise that’s a really convoluted sentence for what it’s trying to say. Still, I guess it’s good to have a signature writing style….I guess this is a “style”.The Perth Test will be the Qantas Wallabies final on Australian soil for 2013 with their remaining Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship games to be held in South Africa and Argentina.
Why is there a capital B for bye? And “return to action” – really? 41 words, 5 subjects covered without punctuation. Well done.After breaking for the second Bye week of the Championship the Qantas Wallabies will return to action in Cape Town against the Springboks on Saturday 28 September before wrapping up their campaign in Rosario against the Pumas on Saturday 5 October.
Mouthwatering is actually a recognized word – didn’t need the hyphen. But you did need a hyphen between highly and anticipated. Not sure why you’ve given rugby a capital R. Following is not the fancier word for “after”.ARU CEO, Bill Pulver, said the second annual Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship presented a mouth-watering schedule of Rugby following the highly anticipated British & Irish Lions Tour.
Geez this Pulveriser quote sounds a lot like Deans’ quotes… are we 100% sure BP said this, and it wasn’t written by the same guy who “writes” Deans’ material? The rugby won’t be replicated at all and it’s impossible to be both replicated and bettered.“The inaugural Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship delivered some exciting Rugby, which will no doubt be replicated and potentially bettered in 2013,” Mr Pulver said.
Do they take up the top three places, or do they hold the top three places? I don’t want to put BP’s words in his mouth, but this quote makes about as much sense as Dingo’s. Again we’ve used a capital r for rugby. I would’ve preferred“The Qantas Wallabies, All Blacks and Springboks take up the top three places in world Rugby and with the Pumas having gained valuable international experience last year the stakes will be high.
“Every match promises to be an exciting contest with plenty on the line.
“Not only will Robbie and his team have their sights set on re-claiming the Bledisloe Cup, they will also want to retain the Mandela Plate, the Puma trophy and of course secure their maiden Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship title.
Were people worried about the shortage of exciting rugby? Why is there a capital r in rugby?“While the immediate focus is on the Lions there is certainly no shortage of exciting international Rugby scheduled once the Lions Tour concludes.”
I can't recall ever seeing it hyphenated but I will research it during a boring point in my dayInside Shoulder it's not a hard and fast rule, but I felt that highly and anticipated were both used as adjectives where "highly" compounded the "anticipated" (if that makes sense ) to describe the British and Irish Lions tour. So I paired them with a hyphen.
I wouldn't normally care but it had come immediately after the "mouth-watering" one and I was looking for where the hyphen could be used instead (if one were intent on using a hyphen at all).
Australia’s Huge Year of Rugby set to continue after The Lions
3/19/2013
By ARU Media Unit
Cat_A what's your authority for needing to hyphenate highly anticipated?
Did the ARU really put out a missive with an American date format? Come here you clowns, no, closer: you're the AUSTRALIAN Rugby Union. Not Septic.
Don't do it again.
Gowers, editing the 2nd edition of Fowler, said:Gowers, The Complete Plain Words, HMSO 1983, pp 183-185 and The Right Word at the Right Time, Readers' Digest, London 1985, pp 275-278.
Give me time, IS, and I'll find a few more.
Hmmm - " a single word with its own meaning" = Beer?I-have-been-waiting-for-this-all-day.
I think we should look at the ARU's grammar as symptomatic of a wider maiaise.Slow work day Cat A?
Only the most enthralling press releases lead to debate about the correct grammatical use of a hyphen.
The whole world should just switch to ISO standard 8601 for dates: year-month-day. So, 2013-03-19. Fucking simple and sensible. And it's in order of high to low, making it easy to sort by date: big (year), medium (month), small (day), then time if needed.
What the Americans do to dates is an abortion.....