Anna de Jong had started to
veer a little away from the Dorver Hypothesis. There was a difference
between event-level sound, which was a series of waves of alternately
crowded and rarefied molecules of air, and object-level sound, which
was an auditory sensation inside the nervous system, she admitted.
That, Fayon crowed, was what he'd been saying all along; their
auditory system was probably such that _fwoonk_ and _pwink_ and
_tweelt_ and _kroosh_ all sounded alike to them.
By this time, _fwoonk_ and _pwink_ and _tweelt_ and _kroosh_ had
become swear words among the joint Space Navy-Colonial Office
contact team.
"Well, if I hear the two sounds alike, why doesn't the analyzer hear
them alike?" Karl Dorver demanded.
"It has better ears than you do, Karl. Look how many different
frequencies there are in that word, all crowding up behind each
other," Lillian said. "But it isn't sensitive or selective enough.
I'm going to see what Ayesha Keithley can do about building me
a better one."
Ayesha was signals and detection officer on the _Hubert Penrose_.
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