Poorly Written Emails

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Strong Bad regularly receives emails with poor grammar and spelling, for which he is notoriously a stickler. He even released a entertaining/informational CD on the subject, "Strong Bad's Rhythm 'n' Grammar."

While many emails do contain these sort of errors, this list only contains errors that are either famous in their own right or have affected how Strong Bad read the email.

Emails With Poor Grammar

• trevor the vampire - Trevor's email ends unexpectedly.
• the basics - T.J. ends "how do you do it" with a period rather than a question mark, and has an unnecessary apostrophe in "trick's" (which Strong Bad does not notice).
• sugarbob - Typed in ALLCAPS and contains a run-on sentence.
• sisters - Ali uses "is" instead of "are." As well, the anonymous author of the second email seems to have a very tenuous grasp of the English language.
• guitar - The first line is a run-on sentence. Also, "whats" should be "what's."
• little questions - Viklas from Sweden's English leaves a little to be desired.
• lures & jigs - David says "fishs" instead of just "fish".
• your friends - Typed in ALLCAPS
• dragon - Kaizer asks to see his "skills of an artist." As well, uses internet shorthand in the signature.
• marzipan - Emily C.'s second sentence is confusingly structured.
• huttah! - HOLMES types in allcaps, and also asks "WHERE IS YOU SHIRT???"
• unused emails - Dan Chase uses "showed" instead of "shown."
• sibbie - Sibbie's grammar leaves a lot to be desired, including using "your are" instead of "you're" and using "most awesomest."
• kids' book - Changes tenses about halfway through.

Emails With Poor Spelling

• homsar - The most famous of all spelling errors, Vinnie C. misspells Homestar as Homsar.
• i love you - Uses internet shorthand and has the first appearance of a very famous gibberish name.
• i she be - Along with an extreme lack of punctuation, misspells "should" as "she."
• stand-up - No capitalization, an unnecessary comma, and misspellings of "your" ("ur"), "funny" ("funy") and "comedic" ("comidic").
• cartoon - Besides not capitalizing the beginning of the sentence or using punctuation, the writer uses all internet shorthand. In addition, he appears to mis-spell his own name, "geroge".
• invisibility - sin studly17 misspells "invisible" as "invisable," along with not capitalizing and using a few too many question marks.
• 50 emails - Matt emails "Stong Bad".
• comic - Brittany mis-types "They" as "Tey" and "appriciate" instead of "appreciate".
• english paper - Kyle misspells "english" as "englilsh"
• the show - Tori misspells "tournament" as "tounament".
• privileges - crazyclemens misspells "privileges" as "privaleges," as well as spelling Strong Bad as one word.
• the process - Along with accidentally omitting the word "take" from a sentence, Em misspells "process" as "prosess."
• couch patch - "your pal" misspells "from" as "form" and "behind" as "behiend."
• time capsule - Besides barely capitalizing, Sam mis-types "you're" as "your're".

Fun Facts

• A spelling error by Vinnie C. in the email homsar actually led to the creation of the character Homsar.