Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon (2009)(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon (2009)
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This seems to be a highly involved analysis to determine whether Armstrong was lying about his intended phrasing… but for what purpose?
The obsession with this for over 50 years has always seemed contrived to me, if not completely insane.
The normal way of dealing with this would be to put [a] in brackets and never speak of it again. Or not even; just edit it and never say anything.
I read somewhere that transcripts of the US Congress are routinely edited, and not therefore absolutely true records. Do people realize? Is it shocking? Does it matter? I don't know; I only know that I haven't heard about it 1/1000th as much as this during the last 40 years.
It feels almost like the topic of Armstrong's exact words and motivations survives and keeps coming up again because somebody (nebulous, singular or collective) was deeply, deeply wounded by the moon landing, and has never been able to think of a good response.
The normal way of dealing with this would be to put [a] in brackets and never speak of it again. Or not even; just edit it and never say anything.
I read somewhere that transcripts of the US Congress are routinely edited, and not therefore absolutely true records. Do people realize? Is it shocking? Does it matter? I don't know; I only know that I haven't heard about it 1/1000th as much as this during the last 40 years.
It feels almost like the topic of Armstrong's exact words and motivations survives and keeps coming up again because somebody (nebulous, singular or collective) was deeply, deeply wounded by the moon landing, and has never been able to think of a good response.
> The researchers show for the first time that he intended to say "a man" and that the "a" may have been lost because he was under pressure.
Was this not common knowledge long before 2009?
Was this not common knowledge long before 2009?
Yes it was. Thankfully there are people smarter than these "researchers" who just simply asked the guy what he'd meant.