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It suggests that anyone who finds overhype unreasonable speaks with a voice of moderation--"C'mon, enough is enough"--while at the same time setting the ceiling at a level far higher than what any ordinary person would find acceptable or sufficient.
(Note: An alternative etymology of hype would derive the word from the Greek hyper , meaning "over," so that to overhype something is to "over-over" it--more straightforwardly logical but not nearly as evocative, in my view.)
As far as I can tell, however, the word overhype was nowhere to be found.
My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright asked me recently: "Isn't it slightly absurd to apply the prefix over to something whose Greek root means under ?" As Wright knows, the hype in overhype probably comes from hypodermic , as in needle, the components of that term deriving from Greek words meaning "under the skin."
Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.