The article aims at analysing a language of internet chats on syntactic level. The author compares syntactic structures of internet chats and phone talks. The analysis indicates that in a case of a polilog as well as on a level of elementary utterance internet chats shows the same syntactic tendencies as phone talks. The language of chats may be situated on a border of phone talk, written letters and spoken language but the syntactic 'core' remains generally unchanged.
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