26th July 2005

Labor splits

posted by saurabh in Uncategorized |

I was going to write about SEIU and the Teamsters splitting off from the AFL-CIO (with rumblings of UFCW and UNITE HERE to follow), but the Bengali version of me did it first.

Posted on Tuesday, July 26th, 2005 at 6:54 pm | Uncategorized | feed | reply | trackback

There are currently 3 responses to “Labor splits”

  1. 1 On July 26th, 2005, Anonymous said:

    “manic-depressive graduate student with delusions of overturning well- established social hierarchies through sheer weight of cynicism.”

    Are you sure you’re not bangali? :) Maybe we’re the same person. 

    Posted by Saurav

  2. 2 On July 27th, 2005, Anonymous said:

    Hmm, don’t each of you look familiar. ;-)

    The funny thing is I thought it was Bengalis who morphed Vs into Bs. .. 

    Posted by Saheli

  3. 3 On August 2nd, 2005, Anonymous said:

    There’s some interesting grammar here actually (well, if you’re a dork):

    The V in Saurav/Saurabh is a BH in bangla.
    The V in Swati/Svati is a W in the English transliteration of Bangla but is a B in bangla used solely to provided emphasis (as in Biswa/Biswa).
    And there is the other B in bangla which is actually pronounced like a B (as in Bangla).
    From there’s it’s only one step to Kevin Bacon.

    All this proves that, as far as I can tell, there is no rhyme or reason to the translation of the name saurav, saurabh, sourabh, sourav, etc.

    QED. 

    Posted by Saurav

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