Rust slang expansion

LibreTranslate's models are general-purpose. They don't speak Rust. If you send them tc, they pass it through; if you send them m2, they output M-two; if you send them kos, they invent garbage.

So the !translate command runs a dictionary pass first, expanding every Rust-specific token to a full English phrase. The translation roundtrip then receives meaningful vocabulary.

Substitution rules

• Whole-word match only. ak matches "ak" but not "naked".
• Case-insensitive.
• The substitution happens before language detection, so tc roof becomes tool cupboard roof before LT decides “this is English”.

The dictionary (selected)

Weapons & ammo

Structures & raiding

Tactics & callouts

Adding to the dictionary

The dictionary lives in rustplus-api/src/lib/intel/translate.ts. Add a key/value, redeploy the API. There's no admin UI for this in v1 — on the roadmap.

Caveats

• Some short slang collides with real words in other languages (ak is also Turkish for “flow”). The whole-word match avoids false positives inside compound words but the false-positive at standalone-word level is unavoidable. The cost — one slightly wrong English expansion — is much smaller than the cost of every callout going through untranslated.