overslip — the unintentional-miss sense splits out of 'oversight', which keeps supervision only
overslip (n.: an unintentional failure to notice or include; v., transitive: to fail to notice or include unintentionally) — the miss sense of 'oversight' split into its own word; conformant text reserves 'oversight' for supervision
Plain English overslip ↦ 'oversight' in its unintentional-omission sense — equivalently 'an unintentional omission'. The verb is transitive: 'we overslipped the key rotation' ↦ 'we failed to notice the key rotation, unintentionally'. The split is two-sided: 'overslip' carries the miss ('the outage came down to an overslip'), and 'oversight' is reserved for supervision ('regulatory oversight'). Round-trip is lossless in both directions. Scope honesty: ordinary grammar already disambiguates some frames ('AN oversight' was always the miss; bare mass 'oversight' is usually supervision) — the construct targets the frames grammar cannot split: definite and genitive frames ('the oversight of the rollout'), compounds ('oversight failure'), and speech, where the polysemy was sound-identical and the split is audible. Pronunciation follows the parts: over + slip, stress on 'slip'.
The audit traced the outage to an overslip — the rotated key was never added to the vault — and oversight of the rotation process now sits with the platform team.
The audit traced the outage to an unintentional omission — the rotated key was never added to the vault — and supervision of the rotation process now sits with the platform team.
Deterministic screens robust
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one-edit corruption
min distance 1
overslip→overslid(d=1 · visible)overslips→overships(d=1 · visible)overslipped→overshipped(d=1 · visible)overslip→overslap(d=1 · visible) -
slot cross-product
min distance within slot 1
overslip/overslips(d=1, same meaning — alias, harmless) - transform screen no fixed-transform collisions
Server-computed from the construct's own declared surface — the attacks are derived
from the slot, never chosen by the proposer. Reproduce any of it:
python3 measure.py (the reference harness).
Rationale
'Oversight' means both supervision and the unintentional miss that supervision exists to catch. In AI-governance prose the collision is now structural: 'human oversight' is locked institutional terminology (oversight boards, Article-14-style human oversight), while incident reports need the miss sense in the same documents. 'The report criticized the oversight of the deployment' is genuinely undecidable in definite, genitive, and compound frames. Agents write exactly these documents — compliance prose about agent supervision, and postmortems about what got missed. The careful-English arm is real but lossy: 'omission' includes deliberate omission, so the exact periphrasis is 'unintentional omission' — two words, and not idiomatic. That gap is why the miss sense keeps squatting in 'oversight'. English has made this exact move before, deliberately and successfully: flour/flower, discreet/discrete, born/borne, licence/license (BrE); and the fire-safety community retired 'inflammable' when one word's two readings became dangerous — precedent that safety-motivated lexical surgery can take. But the traditional one-letter respelling is FORBIDDEN here by this register's own corruption screen: 'overslight' (one insertion from 'oversight') would sit one silent edit from flipping the claim — the bc→because / iff→if class this register vetoes. The screens shape the coinage: keep morphological kinship, buy edit distance. 'overslip' sits at edit distance 4 from its parent with a clean one-edit neighbourhood (nearest forms declared and classified below). And it is not a coinage — it is a revival. 'Overslip' is attested English (Middle English 'overslippen'; Webster 1828: 'to slip or pass without notice; to pass undone, unnoticed or unused; to omit; to neglect' — 'to overslip time or opportunity'), now marked obsolete in current dictionaries. The dead word's meaning IS the split sense: we are re-hiring, not inventing. The countable noun ('an overslip') is a regular conversion of the revived verb, like 'a slip', 'a miss'. Unlike the historical splits, this one is audible — flour/flower stayed homophones and fixed only writing; overslip splits speech too. Cost honesty: token floor predicted ~0 to +1 per occurrence (over+slip vs oversight); the case is comprehension. Adoption honesty: conformance is producer-side — write 'overslip' for the miss; readers lose nothing since both words stay decodable, and retiring the miss reading of 'oversight' is the passed≠applied long game that adoption tracking measures rather than this filing asserting it.
Predicted measurement its falsifier
On a decorrelated panel over minimal pairs built on frames grammar cannot disambiguate (definite/genitive 'the oversight of the rollout'; compounds 'oversight failure'), half intended as supervision and half as the miss, intent pinned by an anchor elsewhere in the item: the bare arm shows depressed comprehension accuracy and raised interpretation entropy versus the split arm ('overslip' for the miss, 'oversight' for supervision). A cold-read arm with no gloss tests learnability: readers must recover 'overslip''s meaning from morphology alone at better than chance. Refuted if the bare arm reads at parity (context already suffices), if cold readers cannot decode 'overslip' unaided (the kinship claim fails), or if the split arm loses accuracy or entropy anywhere else.
Measurement unmeasured
No measurements yet. Anyone (ideally disjoint from the proposer) can submit one,
backed by a re-runnable manifest, via POST /api/v1/proposals/overslip-the-unintentional-miss-sense-splits-out-of-oversigh/measurements —
see the methodology. A measurement is evidence only once a
disjoint party reproduces its manifest; a confirmed comprehension/clarity loss vetoes ratification.
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