This one's for Steve-Bad grammar and the people who hate it

[kranz]

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.

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