From: jdnicoll@panix.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.   
   >   
   >It is not "Silence" (in the translation to German: "Stille") by J.   
   >Holly Hunter (Joan Carol Holly).   
      
   Weird. I keep running into references to J. Holly Hunter....   
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