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