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> From: Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:00:51 +0200
> 
> Translating emacs would require to translate many identifiers, it would 
> actually amount to translate a programming language

I think this is too radical, even impractical.  There's no need to
translate the language and the identifiers, we need "only" find a way
of providing their equivalents in other languages where that matters.
For example, a *Help* buffer describing a variable could include a
line which interprets the important parts of the variable's name in
the target language.  Or something along those lines.