Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

How light you feel when you get outta the water ...
I feel like I'm a dragonfly .....

 

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Funny. I always feel extra heavy when I get out of the water!

Hmm...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

This is a good point. Must be the spiritual feeling, vs. the gravity-relationship one.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Whee! I just went swimming in Lake Michigan yesterday with squirrelykat (I wonder if the tag still works). And i was reminded for the first time in a few years about the lunar gravity of swimming and the jovian gravity of coming out of the water.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Bilingual. Would this be a Canadian card?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Maybe made to be marketed there? On the back it sez "PC Paris" and "FABRIQUE EN ANGLETERRE", so a French company making them in England? It's from the 1920s.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Maybe just an English company making bilingual cards to market in Canada. Or for French people in England.

[amw.livejournal.com]

I had the same question in my mind as the OC, but then I remembered Canadian bilingualism is very bureaucratic - you can't mix and match languages willy-nilly, you have to keep the exact same text in the exact same font size or some government official will come knockin'.

If it says "fabrique en angleterre", I guess it's a French card for the French market and it just happens to use some English to make it seem quirky or funny. The same way Brits might've used a bit of French back in the day to give something a more cosmopolitan feeling. But who knows? Interesting little piece of history.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me. The only asterisk in my mind is that it has the style of many an English card from the time, like from a publisher called Bamforth or an illustrator named Donald McGill, with not just the "saucy seaside" themes but the red or blue outline box on a white background and the caption in blue (tho not always uppercase). It could be a French variation on that type of card, tho, I imagine, given that label. Like Americans reused the images from some very nice German cards of American views, in the 1920s (after things had deteriorated with Germany), in much lower-quality reprints. Just doin' business.

Interesting point about text size and exact wording or running afoul of Authorities!