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Not sure about this term in particular, but Japanese take foreign words and
terms and give them skewed meanings all the time. A "U-turn" doesn't have
to be U shaped. In baseball, an error can be "timely". A "viking" isn't
even a person.

Language is the ultimate form of democracy. Words take on any meaning that
the public gives them, and can change with public will.

  - Joe

On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, Bradley Huffaker <bhuffake@caida.org> wrote:

> While I am more then willing to debate the soul crushing conformity that
> is the akb48 system (is it worse then the music star system in the us=E2=
=80=A6?),
> my real interest is the degree to which Silent Majority is a term the
> Japanese are familiar with and
> if it has the same meaning it does in the states. Does anyone have any
> thoughts?
>
> > On Apr 26, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Robert Wesley Angelo <seiyuu@usagi.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > To me all the geese (Canada geese) in the park look the same, but maybe
> in their eyes they see many individual differences. And maybe it is that
> way with "silent majority"; even though outsiders see only conformity,
> maybe for them, within that
> > conformity there is much space for non-conformity (individualism). A
> further comparison, maybe: nothing is more conformist than the military,
> but even there extraordinary acts of individual initiative and bravery ar=
e
> praised.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > On Tue, 4/26/16, Bradley Huffaker <bhuffake@caida.org <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: [seiyuu:28388] Re: silent majority
> > To: "Robert Wesley Angelo" <seiyuu@usagi.org <javascript:;>>
> > Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 11:55 AM
> >
> > You are correct. I should
> > have typed "wont"
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:59:29AM +0000,
> > Robert Wesley Angelo wrote:
> >> You have
> > confused me now about _want_ and _wont_
> >>
> >
> >> I think this is correct:  as is my
> > wont
> >>
> >> meaning:
> > custom, habit, practice
> >>
> >> Yes?
> >>
> >>
> > --------------------------------------------
> >> On Mon, 4/25/16, Bradley Huffaker <bhuffake@caida.org <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>   Subject:
> > [seiyuu:28386] silent majority
> >>   To: seiyuu@usagi.org <javascript:;>
> >>   Date: Monday, April 25, 2016, 5:15 PM
> >>
> >>   So listen to a
> > 10 minute compilation
> >>   of the Hot 25
> > Japan, as is my want,
> >>   when I
> > heard:
> >>
> >>
> >
> http://www.jpopsuki.tv/category/video/Keyakizaka46---Silent-Majority/4af0=
4696e6919e0157fbd0df918f0923/
> >>
> >>   The idea that a
> > group which is founded on the idea of
> >>
> > absolute obedience
> >>   and uniform
> > appearance of it's members, should preach
> >>   individual
> >>
> > freedom is pretty hypocritical stuff. I was left to
> > wonder
> >>   if "Silent
> >>   Majority" is actually used in Japan
> > or if it's an
> >>   misappropriation of
> > a
> >>   purely American solgan.
> >>
> >>
> >>   --
> >>       the
> > value of a world model is not how
> >>
> > accurately it captures reality
> >>
> > but how often it leads us to take appropriate
> >>   action
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> >     the value of a world
> > model is not how accurately it captures reality
> >     but how often it leads us to take
> > appropriate action
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

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