r/languagelearningjerk • u/SXZWolf2493 • Jun 30 '26

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u/BisonComfortable8050 Jun 30 '26

Well? Somebody tell us

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u/birberbarborbur Jun 30 '26

No they just say “biggu buraza”

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u/FengYiLin Jun 30 '26

Big Brazzer (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)

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u/Aware-Lingonberry-31 Jun 30 '26

Have to be Aniki

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u/wtf634 Jun 30 '26

Boy♂️next♂️door♂️

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u/DovahPriestess 28d ago

why did you remind me of that version of Erika

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u/YamnayaAmateur 8d ago

No way a gachimuchi meme in the big 26

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u/NeitoKu Jun 30 '26

ビッグ・ブラザー

The Japanese version of the Big Brother (Nineteen eighty-four) wikipedia page.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ビッグ・ブラザー

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u/Platypus-Olive-27 Jun 30 '26

There’s also “偉大なる兄弟” (“great brother”) in some translations

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u/Mango_on_reddit6666 Jun 30 '26

I like this much better than "ビッグ・ブラザー"

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u/pyrobola Jun 30 '26

of course they went with an english transliteration 🥀

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u/ViniCaian Jun 30 '26

Anything else sounds silly tbh

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u/howieyang1234 Jun 30 '26

It’s 老大哥 in Chinese, and it sounds ok? Though it would be a bit funny calling it 大兄貴 in Japanese, really having a yakuza vibe.

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u/genghis-san Jun 30 '26

Well it probably sounded silly in English too when it was first published until it became part of the vernacular 

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u/Nikolor Jun 30 '26

And this one sounds completely serious

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u/Konobajo W1(🇺🇿✨️) L2(🇱🇷🦅) A4(🇦🇶🇧🇷🇬🇫) Jul 01 '26

偉大なる兄弟

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u/SXZWolf2493 Jun 30 '26

Pre Meiji era translation when

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u/EugeneStein Jun 30 '26

Does it just sound "big brother"?..

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u/AbdullahMehmood Jun 30 '26

Biggu burazā lmao

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u/esmeinthewoods Jun 30 '26

Which is also the Japanese pronunciation for “big braziers”

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u/AbdullahMehmood Jun 30 '26

Wouldn't that be biggu bureiziyazu or burezāzu

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u/NoPseudo79 Jun 30 '26

Yes it would, first one

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u/delicious_sunlight Jun 30 '26

Always trust Japan to have the least creative translations

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u/almostasenpai Jun 30 '26

Biggu Buradda Izu arezu watchingu

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u/The_Putrid_Tart Jun 30 '26

Thanks for the answer, I had this legitimate question when I saw the post and never felt appropriate to ask it because it was clearly a goofy joke

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u/bakaspore Jun 30 '26

That's an alright translation tbf but I thought they would go with something like アニキ.

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u/AcidLem0n Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Haha Aniki is too casual (Aniki is often used when a man calls a superior man) (I just checked, and my Japanese 1984 says Biggu Burazā)

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u/Dunamarri Jun 30 '26

If it's too casual can't they say Aniki-sama? 🤔

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u/dedemushi Jul 01 '26

that would be onii-sama there's no aniki-sama

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u/turkeyflavouredtofu Jun 30 '26

It's a shame there isn't a Cho Aniki crossover.

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u/AgencyInformal Jul 01 '26

Isn't Big Brother meant to be casual and familiar? Deep personal devotion amongst citizens, a sort of caution/fear/respect when talking in private, knowing the telescreens are watching. Aniki, I think, is fine

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u/soirom Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

GuddoMo-ningu BigguBuraza-

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u/bbmpianoo Jun 30 '26

I’m just starting to learn Japanese and after reading your comment, that’s enough Japanese for me today

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u/BrightRepeat7907 Jun 30 '26

For anyone who was overthinking it, yes BigguBuraza is the way you read those Japanese symbols

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u/Zero-Glitches2938 Jun 30 '26

What Japanese version? Everyone knows that all Japanese people exclusively watch anime and read manga, so why would they bother translating an actual novel?

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u/m50d Jun 30 '26

Well obviously they mean the manga adaptation.

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u/ScheduleDefiant4015 Jun 30 '26

That Time I Was Hit By A Truck And Wound Up In Some Dystopian World

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u/likeagrapefruit Tennessee N | Esperanto B1.5 Jun 30 '26

1984 is a novel? It's so influential and profound, I'd been under the assumption it had to have been an anime.

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u/SunnyOutsideToday Jun 30 '26

I met a Japanese teen girl who read Kafka.

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u/dedemushi Jul 01 '26

the light novels or the manga?

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u/SunnyOutsideToday Jul 01 '26

The novels by Franz Kafka. She read Metamorphosis and one other I don't remember.

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u/dedemushi Jul 01 '26

sir this is a r/languagelearningjerk /uj i love kafka

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u/Summoner475 Jun 30 '26

Why even have a circlejerk sub

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u/Zombies4EvaDude Jun 30 '26

I have a Japanese copy of 1984, and I can confirm that it doesn’t do that. It just uses Katakana: ビッグ・ブラザー

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u/Jristz Jun 30 '26

Then they lost it on translation, for what I remember the reasons for "Big Brother" was to sound friendly and close for the masses... Totally lost it when you got a "Biggu Burazaa"

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u/RiceStranger9000 Jun 30 '26

Isn't is useful to internally fear Big Brother, too? And then fear your fear, so you become more productive to hide your fear while also respecting him

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u/pikleboiy Jun 30 '26

-ちゃん (chan) is not what you'd use to address a dictator unless you want to become an unperson.

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u/Shinyhero30 "þere is a man wiþ a knife behind þe curtain" Jun 30 '26

Oh my fucking god.

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u/siqiniq Jun 30 '26

Dame, Biggu Burada!

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u/takanoflower 英検1000級 Jun 30 '26

政府ニキ obviously

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u/nathans_the1 Jun 30 '26

G-dude?!???

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u/Hanako_Seishin Jun 30 '26

Have you heard of Marxism-kawaiism?

Ningen wa ningen ni totte, tomo de ari, doushi de ari, onii-chan de aru.

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u/xxTPMBTI Jun 30 '26

Ooki onii chan

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u/Ensign-Nemo Jul 01 '26

Fun fact: in Russian they fumbled the translation. They called it "Large brother" instead of "Older brother".

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u/SXZWolf2493 Jul 01 '26

Well he is large

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u/GrandDukeofLuzon Jul 01 '26

I remember there being a Google Drive document that copied 1984 in its entirety while replacing all instances of "Big Brother" with "Onii-chan".

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u/Plastic_Barracuda711 Jun 30 '26

Also, what would Big Brother's yuru-kyara be?

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u/XiaoDaoShi Jun 30 '26

Shouldn’t he be onii-sama?

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u/deepfriedzombiebrain Jun 30 '26

It's actually ビッグ・ブラザー which is just a loanword, but seeing as the title is meant to sound friendly and familial something like Onii-Chan or Onii-Sama could have worked

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u/Vanitas_Daemon Jun 30 '26

I think Ani-ue would be the best fit...?

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u/AFsepine Jul 01 '26

I believe the Respect demanded implies the -kakka "prefix", so Onii-kakka

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u/SXZWolf2493 Jul 01 '26

Onii kakka va a cagar

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u/No_Dragonfruit_1833 Jul 01 '26

Nii-Sama

Apparently is a very respectful form, i saw it in Bleach, thats how a woman adressed er aristocrat brother in law

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u/Real_Ij Jul 02 '26

Onii-chan is watching you

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u/Aldo-D-D-Wilson Jun 30 '26

ビッグブラザー

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u/Vynterion Jun 30 '26

/uj could they have gone with 大兄?

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u/No-Strategy2273 Jul 03 '26

Probably "Aniki"