cicero jones
02 October 2006
  Who Da Man?
Never forget your indefinite articles.  So was the lesson learned by Neil Armstrong, when he said "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" upon landing on the moon.  Really, he meant "a man", as saying "man" without an article in front of it essentially causes it to mean "mankind."  Well, according to this article, a computer analysis of the audio recorded that day shows that Armstrong really might have said "a", as he says he intended to.

Wow.  Think of the consequences.  Say something wrong at work, and simply produce an ex post facto analysis that shows you actually got it right the first time around.  I know I could use that.

I will keep you updated on this software, and if it does indeed become freely available, I will post it here so that you can all have the opportunity to rewrite (rerecord?) history.
 
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