I wasn’t expecting that! The explanation is auto translated

Les Poissons Rouges sont formidable! J'apprendre suffisant Francais pour manger les fruits, mais j'étais flummoxé avec les autres groupes qui sont trop difficile pour moi. Je ne peux pas réparer une voiture, mais je peux crier "m'aider! Ma voiture est baisée" très fort. Bien, bon effort, visage souriante et clignotant, et allez oop avec la pouce.

I’m sure the French version of the AA will respond well to that cry.

Your review has now auto-translated but only when you’re looking at the comments from this particular puzzle. On the general comments page it remains in French - unless that’s my computer viewing a cached page. I had to cheat to find the expression for ‘red herring’ in French. Red fish doesn’t hack it. Then the puzzle solution auto-translated it back.

And now you’re back in French. That’s weird.

I should have thought that trying to translate MY French back to English would break the internet

I’m sure the French version of the AA will respond well to that cry.

Your review has now auto-translated but only when you’re looking at the comments from this particular puzzle. On the general comments page it remains in French - unless that’s my computer viewing a cached page. I had to cheat to find the expression for ‘red herring’ in French. Red fish doesn’t hack it. Then the puzzle solution auto-translated it back.

Just my computer by the look of it. It’s sat there looking very confused

What about "hareng fumé plus fort"?

C'est pour brouiller les pistes = that is a red herring. Figurative speech not translating in this case

Sorry it's all Greek to me - well French at least - and my grasp's not good enough - only managed 2

No worries Joe. Only tried it to see if I could make some kind of fist of it

That was unexpected! My husband (French Canadian) says he would use ‘fausse piste’ for a ‘red herring’...:)

A fluent French speaker Amaryllis? Does the rest of the grid work? I did it but had no clue if it would work for someone French.
He (hopefully) should see 6 types of fruit, 5 towns in Provence, 5 parts of a car and then a group of 4 made up entirely of 'fause pistes' with no fausse pistes of their own. My French wasn't up to getting a proper 4th working group together.

worst comment ever by Joe Soap. Zzzzzzz

My beloved would laugh at the thought of my French being fluent, BinDipper, but he’s Quebecois, so what does he know! ? Your groups all made sense and I admire your bravery in even attempting a French grid. You did miss an ‘s’ out of Roussillon :)