Steelclaws: More likely the hybrid language Finglish, spoken by 1st generation immigrants to the USA. Judging from the pic, it's from early 20th century, and "stadin slangi" back then wasn't as English-saturated as it is now.

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.

My guess would be either a second language Finnish speaker, or early example of the capital dialect know as "stadin slangi". That particular dialect is known for mixing random foreign words (especially Swedish and English) with Finnish by giving them Finnish inflections, so it would fit.

More likely the hybrid language Finglish, spoken by 1st generation immigrants to the USA. Judging from the pic, it's from early 20th century, and "stadin slangi" back then wasn't as English-saturated as it is now.

You're probably right, I didn't look at the picture very carefully at the first glance and it's clearly older than I first thought.

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