On: Transitioning entirely to neural machine translati...

[toomanybeersies]

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.

[rpmcmurphy → toomanybeersies]

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

[visarga → rpmcmurphy]

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.