I had a partner that was a translation coordinator and they would play me this VM from one of the Vietnamese translators, every time he called he would say, “Hi this Phuc, ha ha that is funny to you, anyway …”
I had actually considered PrePy and variations thereof for the magic_codec project (which is the example implementation showcased in that post), unfortunately all of these had been used by other projects before. Pydong is the name of the blog :)