[1] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (16)
Subject: unjust sex-change
My apologies to everyone, and to that great scholar Roberto Busa especially,
for altering the final vowel in his first name and so changing the
indication of sex. I cannot plead a slight error in keystroke, as on my
QWERTY keyboard the "o" and "a" are quite far apart, nor can I plead total
ignorance of Italian and its naming conventions, nor anything else I can
reasonably imagine. Mea maxima culpa (which, yes, is feminine in grammatical
gender throughout). I am especially embarrassed because I might seem to have
attributed the error to Ted Brunner, who knows better than I, having met
Busa, which cruel fortune has denied me. Perhaps years spent reading Ovid
has so affected me that subconsciously in nova fert animus mutatas dicere
formas corpora..... Yikes!
WM
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