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   Hi, Anton Shepelev! -> Alexander Koryagin   
   I read your message from 17.11.2023 00:51   
      
    AS> I don't think `anecdote' means what you think it means.   
    AS> Check "anecdotal evidence" and "historical anecdote".   
      
   Probably it is simply a "joking story". Do you know funny Russian stories   
   about Chapaev, Stirlitz etc? How do you think, is there something similar in   
   America? How do they call such stories?   
      
    AK>> Two Russian immigrants   
    AS> emigrants?   
      
   Why do you think that Russians cannot be immigrants in Germany?   
      
    AK>> who lived in Germany saw that at the nearby building site   
    AS> /a/ nearby buildin site.   
      
   buildin[g]. ;) I also think that when I speak "the nearby building site" I   
   mean that it is a single site.   
      
    AK>> there were a lot of bricks and no watchmen.   
    AS> Well-said!   
    AK>> They decided to stole bricks   
    AS> to /steal/   
      
   Yeah! ;)   
      
    AK>> and make a sauna.   
    AS> to build a sauna, perhaps?   
      
   Sauna (in understanding of a Russian countryman) is a small thing,   
   theoretically. :) If you want a kennel for your dog should you build it or   
   make it?   
      
    AK>> At night they took a car, went to the building site and loaded the   
    AK>> car trunk with bricks. Suddenly there came German policemen and   
    AK>> strictly asked the men, what the hell they were doing there. The   
    AK>> Russians said that they had built a sauna and some bricks   
    AK>> remained. It was a pity to throw it out, and they decided to carry   
    AK>> it to this building site.   
      
    AS> /had/ decided, I think.   
   When we narrate a story with many events in the past we probably should use   
   the Past Simple. Shouldn't we?   
      
    AS Also, referring to /some bricks/ with /it/ seems wrong.   
      
   Do you think "to carry them"?   
      
    AK>> The German policemen became very angry. They said it was unlawful   
    AK>> to utilise bricks in such an a way. They said to the men, to take   
    AK>> the bricks back and get lost.   
      
    AS> ... told the men to take...   
      
   Why "tell"? They have no a story to tell them. They exactly said to them, or   
   ordered them to get out.   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2023   
      
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