[X] My Assistant

[jmknapp]

And how come we don't have a head-banging-a-brick-wall emoticon?

C'est une petite étape pour un homme, un saut géant pour l'humanité.

[Paul Fjeld]

C'est une petite étape pour un homme, un saut géant pour l'humanité.

Merci mille fois mon ami!

Edit: forgot how to spell friend in french...

[dvandorn]

I'm from Illinois originally, and the Illinois and Ohio rural accents are almost identical. Ohio, if anything, has a little more of the tiny touch of that Indiana-Kentucky soft-northern-edge-of-southern accent than Illinois does.

I am, therefore, very familiar with the speech and accent pattern of a small-town Ohio boy like Neil Armstrong. He, as I also do, tends to add the occasional "a" as an almost unpronounced coda between "for" and almost any other word or phrase. More of a slight hesitation than a fully sounded vowel.

In the same speech pattern, the phrase "For a good time, call Jan at 123-555-1212" starts out sounding very much like "Fer-a good time"... with the "a" so lost that, without context, you might actually hear "Fer good time" with the briefest of stutters between the first two words. (In this case, "for" is pronounced about two-thirds of the way between the long "or" sound and the short "er" sound. Might better be spelled "foehr" or even "fur".)

All I can really say, though, is that I can insert an "a" into the famous quote, have it match the flat Midwest accent and speech pattern, *and* have it match the exact timing of the famous quote. It's a natural way for me to say it. So, while I won't swear the "a" was staticked out, I'll say that Neil *could* have said it and have been consistent with his own accent and with what we hear in the transmission.

-the other Doug