Re: Apollo-11 missing syllable discovered
- From: OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:58:19 -0500
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:47:14 +0800, "Neil Gerace"
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"Jim Oberg" <jameseoberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Apollo-11 missing syllable discovered
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/space/4225505.html
Missing? I always heard it, bearing in mind that he rolled his r into the a
like most speakers of American English would. Not being one myself, helped
me to detect it.
"According to Ford, Armstrong spoke, "One small step for a man ..." in a
total of 35 milliseconds, 10 times too fast for the "a" to be audible."
I think that's how long the 'a' may have taken, not the whole phrase.
And the 'a' is fully audible to this outsider.
....And as I pointed out quite a few years ago on this very group(*),
normal speech for someone in the Ohio region would cause a phrase like
"for a man" to usually be pronounced "for (uh)man" with the "a"
getting reduced to a semi-gutteral "uh", more akin to a breath than an
actual utterance. Factor in the comm quality and the S/N ratio, and
I'm convinced now as I was then in 1969 that he'd said "for a man".
(*) Hey! Shouldn't we be celebrating our 10th anniversary around here
now? 1996 was when this got started. I'll Google here in a minute and
see what's there, as my pre-2001 archive got nailed long ago, alas...
OM
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