Re:Was Steve Yegge Right?
by wingo on Monday August 01, 2011 @04:04PM
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I enjoyed the article; a bit fluffy, but fun. However, oversee.net? The thing that comes to mind directly is "overseer", in the southern slaveocracy sense. (I say this as one who grew up in the southern US.) What an unfortunate name!
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Really, you get "southern slaveocracy" from "oversee"? Oversee just means to watch over, to monitor.
Edit: Seriously, do a search on the term "oversee". It's a common term and it's related to slavery the same way "driver" is, which is to say basically not at all.
Really, I do. "Oversee" can be used in a sentence as a verb without the connotation. But when I see "oversee.net" -- the noun -- I think "overseer", and "overseer" is not a word that I can hear without thinking "slavery".
I don't get the slavery connection from "overseer", either. That's still a common term, and not closely tied to slavery. It just means someone who oversees, a manager/supervisor/foreman. Dictionaries (the ones I checked at least) don't even mention slavery, though I did notice a lot of slavery-related "related searches" on dictionary.com.
Obviously what you see is what you see, so you're not wrong, but I think the connection isn't something most people would see.