Re: Ask not what your country can do for you


John Atkinson wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

Ron Hardin wrote:

It's like ``One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.''

Another lame line that achieved fame.

Maybe this is what Hans's BBC link tells you,

Actually, it says exactly what you say in the next line.

That's what I said. Did you somehow interpret my "this" as referring to
the previous claim of "lameness"?

but acoustic analysis
recently showed, it is said, that Neil Armstrong really did say, as he
always claimed, "One small step for a man, ..." with the "a" lost in a
radio glitch. (You apparently know about radio glitches.)

All I know about this is the discussion on Language Log (or was it
Languagehat?). My impression from that, after all the graphs and
frequency analyses and discription of how various american dialects work
given there, was that whether he said "a", or whether he mispoke (to use
the currently fashionable politician's word), is still a matter of
supreme uncertainty, and may well remain so..

That is certainly what he intended to say,

Certainly. Which is all that matters.

John.

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