Author: Dan Newman
Date: 01:55:50 07/24/00
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On July 23, 2000 at 14:26:33, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 23, 2000 at 02:52:04, Frederic Friedel wrote: > >>On July 22, 2000 at 19:40:24, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >> >>>...butmmmmfgfhiant leap for mankind. >>> >>>That's what I always heard. Did Neil Armstrong choke in his false teeth while >>>saying those words? >>> >>>And what about "man"? >>>Did he say "men"? Did he forget "a" before "man" >>>He must have meant "this is a small step for me as a man, but a giant leap for >>>the whole of mankind" >>> >> >>So somebody noticed! What Armstrong said clearly translates to "one small step >>for mankind, but one giant leap for mankind". I checked the sound track >>carefully years ago. He said "man" and missed the all-important "a". But we must >>remember that it is easy to botch your lines in an exciting situation... > >He was supposed to say "a" but left it out. I can't point to my source but I >remember that I read it in a book or an article that seemed credible. > >It would have made more sense with "a", but "man" is sometimes used in singular >like that, so it's not like he completely crashed and burned. > >If you haven't read Tom Wolfe's book about the US space program, I'll recommend >it. > >bruce I've always thought he probably flubbed the line, but there is a rather loud crackling sound between "for" and "man" that might have obscured the "a". There is just enough space there for a very short "uh" sound that might have been too faint to punch through... -Dan.
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