Re: Ask not what your country can do for you


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

Yes, of course. How else could I read it? And the "but" that follows
seems to be saying that you thought(perhaps without reading it) that the
BBC link _might_ be saying something more than what's in the source
(press release?) where you got the information you summarise below.

Surely a reference to the previous line would be with "that," so that a
reference with "this" could only be pointing forward. Cf. Copland's "A
Lincoln Portrait," which has the pre-refrain "This is what Abe Lincoln
said: this is what the great man said:".

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.

Of course, your "it is said" does seem to imply that you have an
appropriately healthy skepticism when it comes to accounts of scientific
results published in the mass media. (If that's where you heard it?)
(And, equally of course, the same can be said of accounts in blogs,
which is where I heard about it!)

radio

.

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