The quote makes no sense without “a”. It’s always annoyed me that it’s not added in, whether he said it or not!
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imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Ugh I hate that Neil biffed his line
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
zikzak025@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It still makes perfect sense, imo. I wouldn’t even call it incorrect on a technical level. The contrast between “man” as singular and “mankind” as collective should provide all of the context needed.
If I describe a scene of a story as “man goes to work,” no one assumes I’m talking about the collective of humanity.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
“Man goes to work” makes sense as a headline, but not as a statement. “Man” and “mankind” mean the same thing.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Got it, so we can only confront our opponents man(kind)-to-man(kind).
Haquer@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
As another poster mentioned, it’s likely he said it correctly but the radio glitched/cut/whatever during that time and it cut a word. Neil stated that he said the line correctly.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Didn’t NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I could’ve sworn I read that some people did some research on the accent of folks from where he was from and the conclusion was that he did say “for a”. Exaggerating it, if you say it like “fer a” then sort of slide from one to the other like “fera” and sort of drop a little enunciation off the end you basically end up with “fer”. So to me, I think he said “for a” and that was his recollection as well, but either way the quote is basically entrenched as “for” so I don’t really think it’s worth trying to fight to correct people. Especially when the argument is so full of weird details, but if you just listen to the clip it sounds like he fucking just says “for” lmao.
I was thinking about a similar thing recently because I got a Star Wars question wrong in trivia. The question was what planet is cloud city on. I said Besbin but apparently it’s Bespin. Without looking at the word in a subtitle or knowing what it is beforehand they sound exactly alike as far as I can tell.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I like to think he got choked up because of the magnitude of the event. I know I would.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Didn’t NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?