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How do we distinguish someone talking to another person via telepathy rather than via vocal means?

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In my sci-fi novel, some people have the ability to talk via telepathy so how do we distinguish telepathy from other types of communication? I would like to do it, because it's not the same, and I want to stress it out.

Anyway, here's an excerpt I wrote just a few moments ago:

"It won't take too much time. He will be here any moment now." said Tim

"Don't worry the SWAT team is already on their way." Tim told Matthew telepathically.

"Really!? Thank God. I was getting nervous." said Matthew.

Not sure how other people do it, but I would be interested in how this can be done.

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Lauren Ipsum‭ wrote almost 5 years ago

I don't have "close as duplicate" privileges yet, but this was definitely covered: https://writing.codidact.com/questions/18526

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 5 years ago · edited almost 5 years ago

@Lauren that's very closely related and maybe they should be dupes, but that one asks only about formatting while this one asks a slightly broader question, how to indicate it (which isn't just formatting, as I suggested in my answer). I wonder if we should close the other one as a dupe of this one? (We don't have merging yet to bring the answers all together, though if you move your answer here I wouldn't feel bad about then closing that as a dupe of this.)