Model-View-Controller helps generate and sychronize multiple views of an underlying data model, but even using MVC, you still run into internationalization and localization issues. Unless your friends have come up with some similar pattern that's lighter weight, I suspect they're generating a lot of code in the interest of supporting multiple languages.
I've worked inside of several internationalized applications. All have been able to get by with a combination of separate "externalized strings" files for each supported language, plus a few extras, such as the equivalent of a custom sprintf that knew how to dynamically alter the order (position) of substitutions.
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