Speak in and Talk in

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Talk in and speak in are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Talk in" instead a verb "Speak in".

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Speak in and talk in are semantically related. You can use "Speak in" instead a verb "Talk in".

Like the Erlkönig and Odin talk in a runic looking letters, Jareth can speak in it too (mostly when really really angry, so probably this is the visual representation of his accent slipping).

Source: Webcomic / Roommates
This is, however, used willingly by the author, both to show Talon's a scholar, and because, the series having no real fourth wall to speak of, it is often lampshade that the characters really talk in big, written bubbles, so there's no reason they should speak in an oral way.

Source: Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic

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