hmm...I see clouds in my coffee...
I generally see my words as watercolor tiles with all the overtones and shades of meaning, connotations, denotations, plus and minuses--and then, I have top struggle with Canadian English which is more formal and closer to British than American. I resign myself to adopting whatever spellcheck says is appropriate, but I draw the line at using 'u' in place of 'you', even in my tweets :)