[FPSPACE] Linguistic analysis: Armstrong on the moon

[Keith Gottschalk]

   There is no need to re-invent the wheel.  On FPSPACE, several years
ago, someone wrote that they had repeatedly listend to those recordings.
 Due to his strong mid-Western drawl, what Niel A had actually said
was:

  " That's a small step fora man..."

 So the indefinite article was glued to "for".

 - Keith

>>>> LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com> 06/04/09 2:52 PM >>>
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>> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:20:22 -0400
>> From: mcmahon at LEMOYNE.EDU 
>> Subject: [HASTRO-L] Linguistic analysis: Armstrong on the moon
>> To: HASTRO-L at listserv.wvu.edu 
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>> BBC 6/4/09:
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>> "Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon"
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>> "Neil Armstrong missed out an 'a' and did not say 'one small step
for a man'
>> when he set foot on the Moon in 1969, a linguistic analysis has
confirmed.
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>> The researchers show for the first time that he intended to say 'a
man' and
>> that the 'a' may have been lost because he was under pressure.
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>> They say that although the phrase was not strictly correct, it was
poetic.
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>> And in its rhythm and the symmetry of its delivery, it perfectly
captured
>> the mood of an epic moment in history.
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>> There is also new evidence that his inspirational first words were
spoken
>> completely spontaneously - rather than being pre-scripted for him by
Nasa or
>> by the White House."
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>> More:
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8081817.stm 
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>> JMM / LMC