Showing posts with label finnish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finnish. Show all posts

13 Apr 2017

Finnish Erika brochure





I recently made a purchase from a Finnish used bookstore, and while trying to find a few more things to buy to take better advantage of the flat rate shipping I came across this wonderful brochure. The seller kindly threw it in for free.

Based on the models available, and the code printed on the back, I think this is from 1939. I've seen a very similar brochure in German, but it's nice to have one in another language that I'm a bit familiar with. (I know some Finnish, but couldn't hold a conversation yet. Those other books I was buying aren't novels!)






27 Jul 2014

Kolik jazyků znáš, tolikrát jsi člověkem.

1929 Underwood Standard Portable 4B222405



*and also so-called dead keys










On inspection, the keyboard appears to have been modified after production (and quite thoroughly too because 6 typeslugs and keypapers had to be changed from the standard layout). This probably explains the oddities of the special characters not always matching up!

Sent from my new Underwood Standard Portable

20 Nov 2013

Learning about languages / Photos

political demonstration in front of Parliament


telephone

oddly Ukranian-looking apartment buildings

mosaic designs

Typed on my Olivetti Lettera 22