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i kid you not, yesterday i was wondering what's the english word for bathroom scale, so i googled "pèse personne in english", and got answered "person weighs"

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Searching the same thing gives me "The French phrase pèse-personne translates to bathroom scales (plural) or bathroom scale (singular) in English."

In my google search, it gave me directly a translation box where it was translated as "personal scale" (which I think is also used).

The translations from that Google Search widget are painfully literal given how searches are usually phrased. I can't believe they've put that in production.

Similarly, I find its AI tab useless because it has a hard time interpreting search phrasing. If I need to reword it I might as well switch to a chatbot.

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