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I don't think that even on a trivial level it's possible to word-for-word translate most languages, except the most closely related ones, since they have very different language structures.



And then there is the German word backpfeifengesicht, a personal favorite along with schadenfreude.


You can still solve those with a dictionary of translations and for the missing words, a sub-word embedding system that gleans the meaning from the phonetic form.




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