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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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