I keep seeing 'alot' and 'noone' and 'aswell' lately.
If that keeps up, those will be words within a generation or so. (English is a living language. Even the definition of 'irregardless' and 'literally' have changed.)
I usually try to be correct about such things as spelling and meaning, it seems that when the meaning gets changed it's somehow diluted. Now punctuation and capitalization, I don't really care about those in informal conversations
I usually aim for correctness in all things, but I can be pretty lax. I don't proofread comments on this site, for example. I ain't got time (nor care) for that shit. I do proof the stuff I write for my site. There aren't a whole lot of errors that make it through.
I cheat and use something I learned back in college. If you want to truly proofread something you've written, read it aloud. Reading it it aloud makes all the difference. You'll spot errors you'd not spot when reading it silently because your brain works differently when reading it aloud.
For example, if you'd read it aloud then you'd have noticed that I used "it" twice in one of my sentences.
LoL
That's a cool trick!
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