English as a secondary language - Your thoughts on "disclaimers"

[Rivellana]

I'm a native English speaker who can sometimes go all grammar nazi, and I hate it when people mix up their/they're/there, etc. That being said, most of the time people who do this are also native English speakers. People who have English as their second language generally don't do that as often.

I don't mind as much if something is written well and is understandable, even if it's clear the person who wrote it isn't a native English speaker. In those instances, it's generally small things like word choice and sentence structure that give it away.

Disclaimers never bother me, though.

[Deleted]

when people mix up their/they're/there, etc. .

I don't even get how you can mix up those. we get those things hammered in our head before we actually are asked to have a conversation in english^^