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I love this sort of thing. Like NASA engineers calling an explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
Or a data breach an “emergent distributed backup”
Or ‘I dunno what was wrong, but banging it helped’ as ‘percussive maintenance’.
I wonder if the wording depends on the field.
As a microbiologist, I would have phrased it like:
- The sample was destroyed during handling and was not considered for further analysis.
- The animal was not amenable to handling and was excluded from sample collection.
