Thread: Bears on streets :)

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This is my home town

I dont know about bears but about 10 years ago me and my friends saw the(a ?) moose(elk ?) not far from house I live in. We even tried to catch it

please correct me.

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I dont know about bears but about 10 years ago me and my friends saw the(a ?) moose(elk ?) not far from house I live in. We even tried to catch it.

'My friends and I saw an elk'. The rest is fine.

joysof is of course absolutely correct - 'My friends and I saw (something). The test is to break down the sentence into the separate parts. My friends saw (something) and I saw (something). 'Me saw (something)' does not work. This is how I would expect to see it written down.

However, that being said, in everyday speech everyone I know will say, "Me and my friends saw....".

Originally Posted by майк

However, that being said, in everyday speech everyone I know will say, "Me and my friends saw....".

No one I know in everyday live would say that. But that is probably because they know I would kick them in the shins if they did.

You know, I hear that so often I didn't even notice the mistake... I wouldn't make it myself, but it didn't seem 'wrong' to me. That's what you get when your family's from the Westcountry.
Oo-arr, mee an' moiee frenz zaw a muse, uz did, not vaar frem t'ouse oi liv in.

Originally Posted by Jasper May

Oo-arr, mee an' moiee frenz zaw a muse, uz did, not vaar frem t'ouse oi liv in.

Originally Posted by Линдзи

No one I know in everyday live would say that. But that is probably because they know I would kick them in the shins if they did.

The Queen usually uses this type of expression but I'm not really knocking about with the Queen these days

Wow! thanks everybody!
by the way, i live at a distance of ~500m from the place on the picture

"at a distance of" - expression from my dictionary. is there are any way to say it shorter?? например, как бы по русски я сказал "я живу в 100 метрах от ..."

Originally Posted by Jasper May

Oo-arr, mee an' moiee frenz zaw a muse, uz did, not vaar frem t'ouse oi liv in.

what is it??

Originally Posted by Dmitry

"at a distance of" - expression from my dictionary. is there are any way to say it shorter?? например, как бы по русски я сказал "я живу в 100 метрах от ..."

Originally Posted by Jasper May

Oo-arr, mee an' moiee frenz zaw a muse, uz did, not vaar frem t'ouse oi liv in.

what is it??

By the way, I live 500m from the place in the picture, or perhaps,
By the way, I live 500m from the place shown in the picture

"at a distance of" - is an expression in my dictionary. Is there a shorter way to say it? or Is there a way to say it with less words?

As for the 'Oo-arr....', I'll leave Jasper to answer that one, but I reckon it's, "Oh yes, me and my friends saw a moose, we did, not far from the house I live in". Jasper's version shows the accent (often dialect) of people living in the 'West Country'; an area of England centred around Bristol and Taunton, where they all drink far too much cider, drive combine harvesters to work, and go to barn dances at the weekend - so I'm told.

It's a kind of accent spoken in Devon, where my family comes from. (Debmshur foak would call it a dialect)
It's no big deal if you don't understand it. If you've seen Time Team on Channel 4, Phil (the one with the long hair and cowboy hat) talks like this.

where they all drink far too much cider, drive combine harvesters to work, and go to barn dances at the weekend

Almost a perfect description of my uncle.

[quote=Линдзи]

Originally Posted by "майк":18kgz8ud

However, that being said, in everyday speech everyone I know will say, "Me and my friends saw....".

No one I know in everyday live would say that. But that is probably because they know I would kick them in the shins if they did. [/quote:18kgz8ud]

My friends wouldn't say it either, but mainly because one doesn't tend to see elk on the streets of Tunbridge Wells!

@Oddo 'one doesn't tend to see elk on the streets of Tunbridge Wells!' - Good point
I remember Leonard Rossiter in 'The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin' was late for work one morning with the excuse, "Escaped puma at New Malden", which I occasionally use myself

There are always hundereds of stories about escaped pumas going round at a time. I wonder where all these "pumas" come from. They're not exactly native!

Well,
1. Zoos...
2. Some people say they're descended from the Ice-age cats (sabre toothed tiger etc.)

Of course it's bull, but these are their arguments.

Up until the late 70s keeping 'exotic' pets (such as big cats) wasn't illegal, and plenty people did so. When the law was changed their owners had to either give them to some sort of insitution that could care for them (such as a zoo), or have them destroyed, in either event at the owner's own expense. There's no doubt that some of these owners chose to release their animals into the wild in more remote areas, rather than incurr the expense of moving the animal or having it put down. I don't suppose it's totally outside the realms of possibility that a few of these animals survived long enough to be spotted in places such as Bodmin Moor, often enough to create the 'big cat' myths still around today. That's not to say the animals are still alive today of course.