Translating Page URLs without Localizing Pages

A piece of advise that I learned from a wise Tridion sensei is that it’s not a good practice to localize pages in Tridion if you have a multi-lingual site (though there is an exception to this rule which I’ll discuss below).  The reason for this is simple: you lose the ability to centrally manage your site from the Master web publication.  Once a page is localized, you have to manage it individually, which is not ideal if you want to centrally update component presentations on a page across all the language sites.  So what do you do if you want to obey the rule of not localizing pages and your customer asks to have localized/translated URLs? 

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