Cats of Yore: Google guesses that it’s Finnish and offers this as a translation, “Bumi pa Lucky lama is attitu Looking for Meijan” 😆

Mommmmm reading is borrrrring. Photo from my collection, no date.

There is writing on the back of this photo but the only word I can decipher is “Lucky”. Maybe you guys can help.

Google guesses that it’s Finnish and offers this as a translation, “Bumi pa Lucky lama is attitu Looking for Meijan” 😆

Okay, the consensus seems to be that it is Finnish and says: "Me and Lucky This was taken at our house." Thank you, everyone!

This is correct. Judging by the spelling and the fireplace I assume by a Finnish immigrant.

Crowdsourcing ftw 🙌🏼!

It’s Finnish (not very good though) but the translation is weird, I’d read it as Minä ja Lucky tämä on ottetu meijän hausissa Me and Lucky This was taken at our house Should be ”otettu” and ”meidän”, and ”hausissa” would be ”talossa” in proper Finnish.

Maybe the writer was a native Swedish or German speaker, unused to a log cabin but giving it and Finnish a go? ;) Is "hausissa" something to do with a search??

The person who wrote the letter could've been a Finnish immigrant who has adopted a local slang that mixes English and exotic ways of using Finnish words. The language reminds me of American Finns' dialect.

Hausissa probably comes from how ”house” sounds like written in Finnish > ”haus” and -ssa is ”in something” -suffix.

I have no confidence in my parsing of Finnish cursive, but I am reading “leima on attitu” from that second line, which google translates as “the stamp is stamped”. The first line looks like “Mina fa Lucky” to me, or maybe “Mimi fa Lucky”, but neither gets anything sensical from google translate…

…and I typoed and “atittu” is what translates as stamp. Anyway, if you don’t get an answer from someone sooner, I’ll ask a friend who lives in Finland if she can read it. :)

Maybe Mimi is the woman's name?

"ottitu" is "taken".

Last word looks like hausissu or hausissa but I can't make head nor tails of the rest

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