Thread:Ragnarok6354/@comment-25689453-20141122065646/@comment-5294711-20141130005907

Anou... I know I'm a novice here but, I've also listened to hundreds of Japanese songs, studied some Japanese and went to Japan, and the statement that "Japanese people often use Katakana for English words" is not true at all. Japaneses use Katakana to emphasize Japanese words ALL the time, it's like writing in all caps whereas using kanji and hiragana would be writing in proper case.

Moreover, I guess you already know this, but Katakana is not just used to transcribe English, it's used to transcribe every foreign language. Many foreign words written in katakana that Japaneses often use aren't even English. Some are French, some come from some languages I totally don't know, and even Chinese can sometimes be written as katakana ("ペキン” (Beijing) for example).