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So I finally took the next step in my streamlining of translation
commands (which, obsessed as I am with languages I use all the time).
I present to you tres, trja, trfr and trde.
They're the simplest, most concise translation commands I so far know
how to make. They translate from English to either Spanish, Japanese,
French, or German, both ways, every time, so it takes the decision of
picking the direction from you. Compared with str, from which it
evolves, it saves you half the typing (4 letters as opposed to 8), by
assuming English is one of the languages you want to translate too and
by incorporating the other language into the command name instead of
it being a parameter.
It seems trivial but it really feels much faster, not only in typing
but in thought too--the whole thought of translating between two
languages has been compressed to a word!
Hope you find it useful :)