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  Msg # 32025 of 32031 on ZZUK4449, Wednesday 11-04-25, 8:23  
  From: BLUESHIRT  
  To: THE TRUE MELISSA  
  Subj: Re: Doctor Who and the Homo Aquas  
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 XPost: rec.arts.drwho 
 From: blueshirt@indigo.news 
  
 The True Melissa wrote: 
  
 > In article , 
 > blueshirt@indigo.news says... 
 > > 
 > > Just leaving this here... 
 > > 
 > > 
 https://cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-whos-sea-devils-are-now-called-homo-aqua 
 > > 
 > > Personally, I'd have gone with Homo-Aquatic Reptillia 
 > > myself... 
 > 
 > If they can breathe water, they're not hominids. That 
 > term means more than walking on two legs or using tools. 
 > It's a biologial grouping. 
  
 I was kind of being facetious as obviously whatever they 
 are they wouldn't refer to themselves as "Sea Devils"... 
 BUT, to us [in-universe] they are "Sea Devils" as that's 
 what they have always been called... and we are not all 
 biology professors. 
  
 Homo Aqua just sounds stupid. 
  
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