From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
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    Ignatios Souvatzis  wrote:   
      
   > Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:   
   > > Maybe I should have psted that here, not in .misc:   
   > >   
   > >> I have read, long ago, a short story that I'll vaguely summarize:   
   > >>   
   > >> The Hero is a xenolinguist working [...]   
   > >>   
   > >> His software can't match on the sound samples, until he forces it   
   > >> to ignore the sound and match on the silence.   
   >   
   > I wonder whether this might be "Silence" (in the translation to   
   > German: "Stille") by J. Holly Hunter (Joan Carol Holly). Alas, the   
   > collection this would have been in is probably one that I've put   
   > into a public book-swap rack or sold a while ago.   
      
   I happen to have the issue of _Fantastic Stories_ (June 1965) that has   
   this story and it is not the one requested. The protagonist is a   
   musician and the story appears to be horror.   
      
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