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From: Jason Weiser <jason.weiser@g...>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:35:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Urgent list question - anyone speak Chinese….?

For English,  how about People's Liberation Army - Lunar Intervention
Force?

Or People's Liberation Army Off World Response Force

Or People's Liberation Army Lunar Peace Force (for the ironic among us)
On Nov 6, 2015 3:26 PM, "Phillip Atcliffe" <atcliffe@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>


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