Originally posted by T13R
I agree 👍 Its just that I dont understand why they have to say EG6 in english when the show is japanese. Dont they have a way to say that in japanese? They also say "engine" alot. Dont they have a japanese word for "engine"? Thats all Im trying to say here, and I find it funny in the process 
. Would just like to be informed on the matter if any japanese person happens to see this.
Well, since I'm bored, I'll give you a Japanese lesson.
Modern Japanese borrows a massive amount of its words from other lauguages, and 85% of those are from English. Kids have to learn English in school when they are 11 years old, and they usually get to know the English alphabet before that. There is a lot of English on signs in Japan, and computers still use keyboards with English characters on them.
I mean, look at the cars in GT3. Do you see Japanese characters all over the JGTC cars? I think some of them have "Mugen" written in Kanji, but that's about it.
The funny thing is that most borrowed words in Japanese are from American English, but the language textbooks they use are from the UK. For example, in Japan, an elevator is called an elevator (eh-reh-bay-taa), and an apartment is called an apartment (ah-pah-toe). In the UK, an elevator is called a lift, and an apartment is called a flat. So, when Japanese people are speaking Japanese they use the words "elevator" and "apartment," but because they use UK textbooks, they are taught to use the words "lift" and "flat" when speaking English.
I once had a Japanese woman trying to explain to me what an elevator was. She's didn't think an American would know what the word "elevator" meant, so she kept stammering and saying, "It's... Umm... Elevator... It's a... A lift, you know?" I guess you would've had to have been there.
In English, most abbreviations are turned into acronyms, but acronyms don't work the same in Japanese, so you just get fragments of words. There are a lot of Japanese words borrowed from English that really don't resemble English at all anymore. "Su-paa" is Japanese for grocery story, because they take "supermarket" and pronounce it "su-paa-maa-ket-to" then chop it down to "su-paa." There are also a lot of words that get misused. Mansion is a very popular name for any apartment.
Anyway, Japanese people will often use a lot of American words (mostly nouns) to try and be modern or whatever. Advertising and signs have a lot more English than you'll hear in regular Japanese speech, though.
America occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952, and Japan wasn't a democracy until America rewrote their constitution in 1947. At that point, they developed very quickly but were still mostly isolated from the rest of the world, so their culture was forced to borrow a lot from America.
And, BTW, I'm sure as hell not trying to start anything political here, just explaining some things.
I was interested in seeing how long it would take. Good work Neon 
