[FPSPACE] Linguistic analysis: Armstrong on the moon

[David M Harland]

At 13:42 +0200 5/6/09, Keith Gottschalk wrote:
>    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".

Definitely.


dmh








>  - Keith
>
>>>>>  LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com> 06/04/09 2:52 PM >>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>  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
>>>
>>>  BBC 6/4/09:
>>>
>>>  "Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon"
>>>
>>>  "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.
>>>
>>>  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.
>>>
>>>  They say that although the phrase was not strictly correct, it was
>poetic.
>>>
>>>  And in its rhythm and the symmetry of its delivery, it perfectly
>captured
>>>  the mood of an epic moment in history.
>>>
>>>  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."
>>>
>>>  More:
>>>
>>>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8081817.stm
>>>
>>>  JMM / LMC
>
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