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title: "SAY TELL ASK WHISPER SHOUT HOLLER '"
description: "Usage: say | shout | holler <string>"
textKind: "verbatim"
canonical: "https://darkpawns.labz0rz.com/help/commands/say-tell-ask-whisper-shout-holler/"
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Usage: say | shout | holler &lt;string&gt;
       tell | whisper | ask &lt;player&gt; &lt;string&gt;

If you consider communicating with other beings, you might be understood
better if you start your sentences with either say, tell, whisper or shout.

Examples:

  > say Hey, does anyone know how to get to Oz?
  > tell catje hi, how are you?

You can use ' as a shorthand for say, as in:

  > ' hello there.

Shout broadcasts your message to everyone is your geographic zone.  Holler
broadcasts to everyone in the game but costs 20 movement points.  You must
be level 2 before you can use shout or holler.

See also: [AUCTION](/help/commands/auction-channel-channels-gossip-grats-noauction-nogossip-nograts/), [GOSSIP](/help/commands/auction-channel-channels-gossip-grats-noauction-nogossip-nograts/), [GSAY](/help/commands/gsay-gtell/), [NOREPEAT](/help/commands/norepeat/), [QSAY](/help/commands/qsay/), [REPLY](/help/commands/reply/)