Talk:BattleMechs

I feel inclined to correct this rather flawed 'history of Mecha' here. Mech is a corrputed version of the japanese slang word 'mecha' which is derived from 'meka' which in turn is derived from the english word 'Mechanical'. Mecha refers anything mechanical, such as cars, guns, phones, ovens, tanks, planes, etc, but rarely 'mechs'. In japan, such 'limbed war machines' are general referred to as robot. Mech is, more or less, a misunderstand/mistranslation and its relation to the original japanese term 'Mecha' is mostly that they look the same, apart from the letter 'a'.