We discuss in this article the issue of style as a fun­damental concept of culture, of functional styles, delimited according to common criteria and orality (oral, familiar, dialectal or colloquial style etc.). We try to argue that orality does not meet the classificati­on criteria of functional styles and, therefore, cannot be considered one of them, but a way of utterance, at most. At the same time, we cannot speak of purity of style anymore, as was traditionally accepted, becau­se we collectively witness a visible interplay of styles both in a written and in oral form due to the linguis­tic inclusion of all speakers in the virtual communi­cation circuit as well as due to the unlimited access to information following the emergence of multiple means both media and technological, or a combina­tion of the above.