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Re:Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment by Timpy on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:16PM (#25703555)
"o-nii-chan" is a great example of translation difficulty because it's very natural in Japanese to refer to your older brother as "o-nii-chan" and it sounds like bad exposition writing in English.
Re:Funky Fantasy IV: A Machine-Translated Video Game Experiment by djur on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:03PM (#25704708)
And in this case it's just being used to address an older but not elderly man, in a way that's totally normal in Japanese but would be utterly bizarre in English.