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.
• local news - Dan uses the wrong form of "its," causing Strong Bad to sing one of his Rhythm 'n' Grammar songs.
• car - Features a run-on sentence and some very random capitalization.
• other days - Janus seems to have much the same problems with English Viklas had.
• pizzaz - Ryan N.'s line in the signature has no punctuation and doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
• animal - Spud Jr.'s "What would you like as if" doesn't make much sense.
• dreamail - Danny uses "Another" instead of "In other."
• E-mail Birds - bettina's email is one large sentence with no punctuation whatsoever. As well, Naomi seems to have a somewhat tenuous grasp of the English language.
• Videro Games - Wilbur uses "in" when he doesn't need to, resulting in "the effects of in video games on children."

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."
• lunch special - "Someone" misspells "lunch special" as "luncch specials" and "Sincerely" as "Sincerly."
• haircut - Harry misspells "cool" as "coull." Also, his second sentence is a run-on.
• theme park - Along with a run-on sentence, Rafael misspells "business" as "buisness."
• dangeresque 3 - john newell spells "coming" as "comeing."
• time capsule - Besides barely capitalizing, Sam mis-types "you're" as "your're".
• montage - Steve misspells "create" as "creat."

Fun Facts

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