Re: Urgent list question - anyone speak Chinese….?

On 06/11/2015 19:19, Jon Tuffley wrote:
> I need a believable name for Chinese military forces on the Moon in
the near future….. they are going to be the opposition for the USLM
(United States Lunar Marines)…. so what might they be called? I guess
what I need is a sensible term for them in English, and THEN the
translation for it?
>
> Democratic Peoples' Space Forces?
I don't speak Chinese, but if this version of China is a direct 
descendant of today's PRC, then a space force is quite likely to be 
called something like the People's Liberation Army Space Force (PLASF), 
along the same lines as the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), 
People's Liberation Army Air Force )PLAAF) and People's Liberation Army 
Marine Corps (PLAMC -- are you starting to see a pattern here?). To our 
ears/eyes, the names are peculiar, to say the least, but the Chinese do 
it that way. So you could well have the PLASF, or the PLA Space Marines 
(!), or the PLA Space Marine Corps.

Alternatively, the space forces, both "naval" and "marine" could simply 
be part of the PLAN and PLAMC, not unlike a VSF navy having both ships 
and aeronefs. Your choice.

Phil