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Originally Posted by Penguin
It is double-annoying to a non-native speaker, as it actually makes a text much harder to read, especially when people use a similar sounding word with a different meaning.
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you waist your time
as a non-native speaker I have to admit that I often have problems with words in which you double a letter (colleagues, -ed endings when sth gets doubled or it doesn't), words like proprietor, appreciated, and very rarely but still - homophones - here/hear but these are pretty easy to spot when I proof-read....not
