Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23.122.217.39-20150626042307/@comment-23.122.217.39-20150813191221

I guess you could make the argument that the titles are meant to mirror each other and that's the reason why they were translated the way they were, but as Emuei stated, there's a reason to re-order the one and there's no reason to re-order to the second. In both cases, "Ma" seems to be used to quantify the word after it. "Project 'Ma'" makes sense in this regard--It's the "Ma" project. I mean if we were going to alter that one too we could actually call it "The 'Ma' Project", but that's less snappy and easy to use than "Project 'Ma'".

"Survival 'Ma'" on the other hand is not grammatically correct and does not convey the information the same way. It's a case of where ideally they would both be translated the same way but the word "Project" just happens to function differently for English speakers than "Survival".

Ex, at the risk of sounding redundant, you can say "Project Icarus" or "The Icarus Project" and both would mean the same thing but you cannot say "Survival Course" and "Course Survival" as the same because one means "A Course on Surviving" and the other means "Surviving the Course".

It would help if it was an in-universe term to understand more of the connotations behind the title. I assume it's "Surviving through 'Ma'" rather than "The Survival portion of 'Ma'" or "The Survival of the 'Ma'", hence why I would support making it "'Ma' Survival". If this is all making sense.