Me and my friends have a rule when it comes to french fries, the rule is that fries are public to everyone even tho you did not buy fries. So basicly we can steal fries from eachoder.
Ive tried to translate this concept with google translate and it seems right to my knowledge. But one thing i dont understand in this bit:
“フライドポテトは一般公開” is the “一般” part, why is this necesary? Or is this just something stupid that google did?
The source centance was: “Fries are public”
Is there a better way to say this? Anyone can help?
Definitely more than you’re saying. Kind of the opposite of what you’re saying. I was more being a wise guy but I think because we posted at the same time that fell through.
Roughly “While you are gone, I will protect this place and these fries with all my strength.”
In all seriousness, what you wrote seems to be technically correct, but has a government vibe to it to me. Not sure how you would change that.
I think you’re being too literal in your translation.
フライドポテトは誰でも食べれる。
Anyone can eat the fries. (Although I guess you’d have to add some kind of context to make it clear that’s a “is allowed to” rather than “is able to”? It should be pretty clear, though, if this is something you need for a real-life situation.)
Public in the sense of “property” is 公有 (こうゆう) so you probably could get away with
フライドポテトは公有だ。
but I don’t know if it’d carry the same context to a Japanese person or not.
(P.S. Would recommend looking up specific words in a dictionary like http://jisho.org rather than using Google Translate to translate whole phrases. Google Translate once told me that 我輩, an old-fashioned word for “I”, meant “soup.”)
Better watch out, or the sharing police will get you! 
