Bob Morein wrote:

"trotsky" wrote in message
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George M. Middius wrote:


trotsky said:



Oversight--right. Your use of the language is deplorable, Bob.

And the

Silver Flutes are quite accurate. Buy some and find out.


OVERSIGHT
2.. [n] management by overseeing the performance or

operation of a

person or group



Bob, I would've thought you'd known this, but idiomatically nobody uses
that second defintion, ever.


On the contrary, it's a very common usage.



"I was overseeing the project."

"I performed an oversight on the project."

Example #2 is that of bad writing. Quit being a fool.


You're right about your silly "example #2", but that doesn't help
your main point. In fact, if you rewrote it in normal language, i.e.
"I performed oversight on the project", it is both standard and
easily understood by any speaker of English.


Can you give me an example in anything written is say, the last forty
years? This is the problem: there are dictionary definitions, and then
there is common usage. Writing that is interesting in the here and now
pays close attention to the common usage. I don't suppose I'm telling
you anything you don't already know.


A Google search on the string "management oversight" produces 1,610,000
hits.
Take your pick.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ment+oversight


How many of those refer to errors? Do you even understand what is being
discussed, Bob?

Let me know when you make it through that 1.6 million hits.