Words and phrases coined in the conservation labs, hitherto unknown to the English language.
Flanky (adj.): Something that is suspect, suspicious or generally unsavory.
Beyond the sizzle point: A phrase to describe a situation in which one is very frustrated, angry or otherwise stressed out.
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December 1, 2007 at 2:39 am
simulant (noun): screen based representation of a print book including nonsequiturs of capture processing
February 2, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Not a conservation-based term, but a good “library” one from Thomas Leonard: “value engineering: painful cutting of a construction budge accompanied by the groans of everyone on the project who know settles for less.”