Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch

Re:Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch by byuu on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:50AM (#8571815)

Sorry for going off-topic here to the thread, but ...

As someone studying the language, can you explain what the と portion of the name means? I am aware of the ある (有る) portion, "to exist", and that と is being used here to represent a clause, eg "Xと言った" (X said), "Xと思った" (X thought).

But in this case, there's nothing before とある, so why say と at all in this case? Why not just say あるOS?

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Re:Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch by delluminatus on Friday November 07, 2014 @09:57AM (#8572750)

I think it's stylistic. The anime series (To aru majutsu no index) uses the same style of "to aru <noun>" instead of "<noun> to aru". It reminds me of Latin, where you can adjust the position of phrases in the sentence for emphasis or rhythm.

Personally, I think of the "to" as emphasizing the specificity of the phrase, if that makes sense. It's not just that "an OS", it's this specific OS that's being referenced by "aru".

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Re:Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch by byuu on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:41PM (#8575484)

Ah, most interesting. Didn't think you were allowed to ever move "X to <verb>" to "to <verb> X", but great to know that this happens. Thank you for the explanation!

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