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Reminds me of an episode of Blackadder when he thinks he has accidentally burned Samuel Johnsons Dictionary and he and his sidekick Baldrick sit up all night trying to rewrite it. When prompted how it was going Baldrick replies "Well, I'm very pleased about my definition of dog." "All right, let's hear it," Blackadder says, to which Baldrick replies "Not a cat!" 😂

I really hate to break it to y’all but while this specific mishap is uncommon, this is unironically how most people think taxonomy works