Originally Posted by
AndreaMG
That's funny. I'm sure you have the French Canadian vote. . . beyond which there might be just a little resistance. I'm not political about Canadian anything, but when I was visiting Canada for a few months back in 1974 it was certainly something the French Canadians were keen on. They had managed bi-lingual by then with labeling and so on. But some of my Canadian friends were telling me that in France the French weren't so sure that Canadians were speaking understandable French. I found it all amusing because I spoke no French of any kind and it all sounded the same to me. But I'm American and any of them asked would have labeled me as linguistically hopeless despite my having studied Latin in high school and I knew some Spanish by that time in life.
As to the language the Statue of Liberty spoke, I believe it may have been Latin. From what I was able to gather, she was invented by a Roman who was being held under house arrest pending execution by the Emperor. And he, Boethius, being a great scholarly fellow, was describing a vision, something of an invented goddess, the embodiment of Philosophy in his book The Consolation of Philosophy. And I also seem to recall that book became a staple among the universities. And my guess is that book was used as a primer on Latin for those future men of power in the Middle Ages up through when the Statue of Liberty was built by the French. I suppose since she is who she is, she speaks all languages. But likely not just French.
You have to admit, it's a great sculpture. But my opinion is that at the turn of the century, the French Academicians were the best in the world at realistic sculpture at that time.
Oh, and Mr Ploos4, don't feel singled out being rejected. She's way out of my league as well. 
Last edited by D Akey; 02-12-2014 at 06:48 AM.
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