Abbreviations become important. It is much quicker to write BTW than to write by the way. All chatroom talk could be considered informal speech. Without knowing the context there is no meaning. As I will explore later in this thesis, words do produce meaning, however the difficulty in Chatrooms is not only finding meaning within any 'talk' but to have others understand or follow what we mean.
People are fully able to communicate as long as there are structures to communicate within.
These structures have a linguistic base, wyhich stand in for our categorisation of speakers. Chatrooms do provide structure. There is an architectural setting, an existing space. There are rooms, towers, Plato's cave, cathedrals, cities, states, nations, worlds and universes. The fact that the space does not have a physical locale is irrelevant.