@gueueti.bsky.social: 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.

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” 😆

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??

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

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.

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