Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:51:03 -0600
From: syverson-AT-uts.cc.utexas.edu (Margaret Syverson)
Subject: Re: "Trivial pursuit"


My understanding was that the first syllable is pronounced with an "a"
sound as in the English "father."


>I replyed to Martin in a personal note, but perhaps this inquiry is not
>so "trivial".  After all this is a bhaskar-list (or at least Critical
>Realist-list), and part of the purpose is to expose others or (sometimes)
>simply introduce the philosophy of Bhaskar and Critical Realism.
>Whereby, no such question is "trivial", and actually quite important for
>the fruitfulness and health of this "virtual" community.
>
>Hence, I send this reply also to the list.
>
>I believe the name Bhaskar is Indian, in India usually a first name, it
>is pronounced in two syllables; the first like the English word Bass
>(i.e. Bass fish); the second like the English word Scar (i.e. the
>mark left on the body after an injury); or Bass-Scar.
>

Margaret Syverson
The Computer Writing and Research Lab
Division of Rhetoric and Composition
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
syverson-AT-uts.cc.utexas.edu
http://www.en.utexas.edu/~syverson



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