[FPSPACE] Pronunciation - Armstrong on the moon

[Keith Gottschalk]

two quick comments - 

1) Dear Jim & Alcestis - a happy 40th anniverary! & many more years of
good health.

2) Dear FPSPACE-ers, 

   I'm sure the recording of those first Moon words are still available
on some website or other. Virtually all members of FPSPACE (except
myself!) have both the bandwidth, & the speakers attached to their PCs,
to replay these sentences five or ten times, & hear for themselves.

    Now, we'll never know what words Columbus, Lief Eriksen said on
first footfall. Or the surviving 17 of Magellan's crew...    - Keith

>>> "James Oberg" <jeoberg at comcast.net> 06/08/09 1:28 PM >>>

>Sorry, I don't weigh highly some whiny Brit intellectual's
conclusions.
>Never have -- and I've heard lots from that cultural quarter.
>
>I heard the comment live. My brain parsed the audio quality compared
>to my experience listening to pilot air-to-ground conversations in
USAF work. 
>
>When my future wife (with whom I'm soon to celebrate a 40th
anniversary)
>leaned over to me and asked, 'What did he say?', I repeated to her
what 
>I had heard him say: "Tha'ts one small step for a man...."
>
>Far more significant an error -- common around the world -- is the
mistaken
>belief that this was said as Neil jumped down off the ladder and down
onto the
>surface of the moon, rather than when he smoothly moved his left foot

>off the footpad, where he stood, and pressed it in to the lunar soil.
>
>Jim O
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Kosmos327 at aol.com 
>  To: fpspace at friends-partners.org 
>  Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:48 PM
>  Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Linguistic analysis: Armstrong on the moon
>
>
>  I have to agree with this. And I find it peculiar that anyone would
seriously suggest the phrase as actually spoken to be 
>improper. It was definitely proper enough (and quite moving) at the
time.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  David L. Rickman
>
>
>  In a message dated 6/7/2009 2:23:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jrespler at superlink.net writes:
>    He listened repeatedly till he convinced himself that he heard
what he 
>    wanted to hear.
>    It was quite clear that was actually said was
>    ...step for man
>
>    No 'a'.
>