alt Hacker NewsAgreeing with the others, this is really cool! :)
I find it interesting that if you switch between languages on the site and the language has a local variant of the proverb, the text will have an additional paragraph explaining it.
E.g. this is the case in French, English or German, while other languages seem to fall back to the English "happy as a lark" one. (And all of them refer to the Hungarian proverb of course)
Did the translation model do that "on its own" or was that a conscious decision?
Glad you noticed that! It was a conscious decision, not the translation model improvising. For ech language, we only use a local happiness related bird proverb if it’s genuinely attested in that language, and when one exists, we add the extra paragraph explaining it. Where no such proverb exists, it falls back to a translation of the English “happy as a lark.” So French, English, and German have their own, while others fall back by design, not by model error. And yes, all of them nod back to the Hungarian proverb that started this whole thing.