Is This A Made Up Language?

[cols747]

I was considering buying this print as I like it. It's a modern drawing made to look like an old soviet advert but I really want to know if the language is real or just made up, https://displate.com/displate/2739387

[jno]

Russian - it says "Kalinkin", a sort of beer

[Buenchico]

Jno just beat me to it!
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1371/8450/

[ichkeria]

What is "Soviet" about it?

[jno]

that's what it says in the ad, Ichkeria, rightly or wrongly

[jno]

(sorry, by "ad" I mean the text in the link provided, not the poster itself)

[ichkeria]

Yes I can see that the other ones are but “lobster” isn’t very proletarian.
Perhaps it’s more politburo :-)

[Buenchico]

>>> It's a modern drawing . . .

No it isn't. It's simply an original design reproduced on a metal plate.


>>> What is "Soviet" about it?

Not a lot! It's actually pre-Soviet era, with plenty of web sources giving the date as 1910. e.g. https://www.pinterest.ru/pin/beer-kalinkin-with-lobster-saint-petersburg-russia-1910--155303887394030071/

[Peter Pedant]

fair enough q boys
the bottle cd say - erm, words fail me - something naughty

it cd be fake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_Princess
Shaun greenhalgh faked this statue and made a mistake in the hieroglyphic spotted latterly by the Br Museum. Very good prog tv on this - Antiques Fraud Show. Policewoman says " o look a spare amarna goddess in the wardrobe just in case you lose the first one!"

homeland - they got immigrants to spray arab graffiti on a set - and someone amusingly put - "this is nothing like the real thing!"

and finally Gerald Browne( now dead) a leading epigraphist ( what-ferist?), according to Oei ( yeah he really exists) forged documents in erm Mediaeval Nubian, published learned articles in the names of his soft toys and may have made up a language ! ( now decd by suicide) (*)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Michael_Browne

(*) eagle eyed Oei ( yup really) spotted a Nubian document on ebay ( no really) and thought - "that has been written up!" He bought it. It was forged and had come up on the market as far as I can see because the contents of the dead mans flat was emptied and then put on ebay. It was one of the things written by a soft toy.

[jno]

Buenchico, the fact that the lobsters are red is a clear warning of the coming revolution. Under a true reading of Marxist-Leninist thought, even lobsters will have access to the finest beer when Sovietism is established.

[cols747]

Pretty sure they are crayfish

[Peter Pedant]

blimey look at those crayfish!
Texan probably