Poorly Written Emails

"Well, let's just see here... Zero capitalization... Misspelling... Lack of punctuation... Looks like a winner to me!"

Strong Bad regularly receives emails with poor grammar and spelling, which he rarely hesitates to point out. He even released an entertaining/informational CD on the subject in an Easter egg in local news called 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.

Ironically, Strong Bad himself will sometimes make a spelling or grammatical error of similar context when typing.

In contrast to the many criticisms of poor spelling and grammar, Strong Bad occasionally receives emails that meet his approval.

List of Poorly Written Emails

These are the list of emails starting from oldest to newest, containing any and all errors.

Email	Poor Grammar and Punctuation	Poor Spelling	Poor Capitalization
homsar	None	Vinnie C. misspells "Homestar" as "Homsar"	None
depressio	"guy ," should be "guy."	None	None
i love you	No punctuation mark at end of sentence	fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf uses internet shorthand; uses a gibberish name	no capitalization
trevor the vampire	No comma after "Hampden"; email ends abruptly	None	Trevor does not capitalize strong bad
i she be	Tenuous grasp on English language; lack of punctuation	Misspells "should" as "she"	no capitalization
duck pond	None	None	no capitalization
the basics	"How do you do it ." should be "How do you do it?"; unnecessary apostrophe in "trick’s"	None	no capitalization
band names	None	None	no capitalization
stand-up	None	Joe p. uses internet shorthand; misspells "funny" as "funy" and "comedic" as "comidic"	no capitalization
tape-leg	None	None	no capitalization (except for "Dear" and "Nicolas")
spring cleaning	Steve writes "crush with Marzipan" instead of "crush on Marzipan". Mike has no comma after "Bend"	Sue misspells surprised as "suprised"	Steve does not capitalize his city, name or "marzipan"
cartoon	"mr" does not have a period at the end of it; the email's greeting does not have a comma at the end of it	Geroge uses internet shorthand; quite possibly misspells his own name as "geroge"	no capitalization
little animal	Question ends with a period instead of a question mark	None	crapfully is not capitalized
super powers	Second question should be a part of the first	None	None
CGNU	None	None	"dear strong bad", both "i"s and "thank" are not capitalized
1 step ahead	None	None	Entire email, except "I", is not capitalized
12:00	"Thankyou" does not have a space in between	None	"vcr" is not capitalized
sugarbob	None	None	ENTIRE EMAIL CAPITALIZED
weird dream	None	None	no capitalization
sisters	Ali says "My sister and me" instead of "My sister and I," and "There is two of us," not "There are two of us." The anonymous author of the second email has awful grammar, and Strong Bad believes they're "not even literate."	None	The greeting "hello" in the second email is not capitalized
guitar	"Whats" does not have an apostrophe, and a comma is missing in the first sentence.	None	Guitar is unnecessarily capitalized
invisibility	None	"Invisible" misspelled as "invisable"	no capitalization
little questions	Tenuous grasp on English language	None	None
lures and jigs	None	Misspells "fish" as "fishs"	None
your friends	None	None	ENTIRE EMAIL CAPITALIZED
50 emails	Mike ends his question with an exclamation mark	Matt misspells "Strong" as "Stong"	Mike does not capitalize strong bad; Matt does not capitalize "what", "example" and his name on his email
website	The word "website" is used too often	None	None
island	"An" is supposed to be "a" for "desert"	"Where" is supposed to be "were"	None
comic	None	Brittany misspells "appreciate" to "appriciate"; "they" is misspelled as "Tey"	None
morning routine	"Whats" does not have an apostrophe	None	None
japanese cartoon	None	None	James's name is not capitalized along with "what" and "japanese"
dragon	None	Kaizer uses internet shorthand	Kaizer's name is not capitalized along with well
huttah!	Nobuyoshi types "then" instead of "than"; Holmes types, "DEAR STRONG BAD!" and "WHERE THE HECK IS YOU SHIRT???"	None	Nobuyoshi does not capitalize any "i"s and the beginning of the sentences; HOLMES' ENTIRE EMAIL IS CAPITALIZED (except "California"); derek does not capitalize (except "Dear strong bad", the last two words blocked by the shred of paper)
fingers	Brandon uses "your" instead of "you're"	None	aaron's email has no capitalization; FRANKDOG'S ENTIRE EMAIL IS CAPITALIZED
english paper	None	Kyle Smith misspells "English" as "Englilsh"	None
unused emails	Dan says "don't get showed" instead of "don't get shown". The first and second anonymous sender's emails make no sense; Evan, Andrew and Stephanie all have tenuous grasps on the English language; Stephanie does not put punctuation in her sentences; The third anonymous sender's comma in "dear, Strong Bad" is in the wrong place	The third anonymous sender misspells "enjoy reading" as "enloy reasing"; Andrew misspells Homestar Runner's name to "hamesturrunner"	EVAN'S ENTIRE EMAIL IS CAPITALIZED; the second anonymous sender does not capitalize their question; Stephanie's email is not capitalized
the show	None	Tori misspells "tournament" as "tounament"	Homestar is not capitalized
personal favorites	HockeymanJ05 has no comma after "e-mails" and uses a period instead of a question mark. Pred types "are" instead of "a", and "I’m" instead of "I". Zebbadee's second "do" should be "did".	Pred uses internet shorthand "u r".	None
privileges	Question ends with a period instead of a question mark	Crazyclemens misspells "privileges" as "privaleges"	no capitalization (except for "Dear")
sibbie	Question says "your are" instead of "you are" and says that Strong Bad is the most "awesomest" thing ever	None	None
anything	None	None	"hi", "have" and "bye" are not capitalized
the process	The question was "How long does it to answer an e-mail?"	"process" is spelled "prosess"	None
kids' book	The sender asks Strong Bad if he had ever thought of a children's book, and subsequently asks "what kind of words did you try to teach the kids", rather than "you would".	None	None
couch patch	None	"Behind" is misspelled as "behiend"; "from" is misspelled as "form"	no capitalization
local news	Ends question with "even". Email types "its’" instead of "its", causing Strong Bad to sing one of his Rhythm N' Grammar songs	None	None
kind of cool	None	"Thinkin" and "wonderin" are missing their G's	Strong Bad is not capitalized
different town	"I just wondering" is missing "was"	"Sincerely" is misspelled as "sincerley"	None
car	"Do you Have a car If you do what Kind of car is it." is supposed to be two questions instead of one long sentence; both should end with question marks	None	Use of random capitalization
lunch special	None	"Luncch" is misspelled with a second c; "sincerely" is misspelled as "sincerly"	None
theme park	Two sentences are separated by a comma	"buisness" is misspelled	The sentences do not have capitals in the beginning
dangeresque 3	None	"Coming" is misspelled as "comeing"	no capitalization
cheatday	"Mike Control" omits a question mark at the end of the sentence. Ryan's email has no punctuation (except for the question mark), Bridget writes "your" as "you’re", and the second anonymous email has no punctuation.	Ryan misspells "better" as "beter"	"Mike Control"'s second sentence is not capitalized (except Cheat). None of the three emails The Cheat answers have any capitalization.
crying	There are two greetings in the email which Strong Bad points out; there's no punctuation before "I was wondering"	None	"Homestar" is not capitalized
for kids	The opening sentence should end in a period, but Allison puts a question mark at the end. Unnecessary comma in "would love you, and your awesomeness".	None	None
other days	Janus has a tenuous grasp on the English language, starting the running gag "Please to be"	Janus misspells "untying" as "untieing"	brian has no capitalization in his email (except for "CA")
old comics	None	None	no capitalization (except for "SB" and "NY")
pizzaz	The valediction does not have any punctuation and makes little sense	"pizzaz" is misspelled and carried out through the whole email by Strong Bad.	The ending of the email is not capitalized
time capsule	Sam uses a period at the end of last sentence instead of a question mark	Misspells "you’re" as "you’rre"	No captalization (except "STRONG" and "X0")
montage	None	"Create" is misspelled as "creat"	None
animal	The question, "What would you like as if you were your own made up animal" needs to be rewritten; the question does not have a question mark in the end	None	None
dreamail	"Another words" is supposed to be "In other words"	None	None
long pants	The email uses the word "pants" too much; the email gets off-topic	None	Homestar is not capitalized
rampage	There is an unnecessary comma after Peter's name	"Dear" is misspelled as "Der"; "I thinks" is supposed to be "I think"	None
garage sale	None	"Da" is supposed to be "the"	no capitalization (except the I's)
modeling	None	There is an extra "u" in "truuly"	"dear" and "i" not capitalized, types "STRONG BAD!!!!!" instead of "Strong Bad,".
record book	None	None	no capitalization
lady...ing	Types a period instead of a question mark after question.	None	"Friends" and "Ever" are unnecessarily capitalized.
geddup noise	None	None	Marc Baroni's name is not capitalized
bedtime story	"Bed-time" story is not supposed to be hyphenated and "Good Night" is supposed to have a comma in the end, not a period	"lately" is misspelled as "latley"	None
secret identity	None	None	Chris uses random capitalization
disconnected	"...were your body is or your head," is supposed to be "where your body was,"	None	None
candy product	No comma after the greeting. The email overuses ellipses, a comma missing after "chick-magnet", and "dont" and "thats" are missing apostrophes. "Chick-magnet" does not need to be hyphenated.	"someone" is misspelled as "somone", "homestarrunnner" has three N's.	"homestarrunnner" should be "Homestar Runner"
senior prom	"...did you ever have a senior prom," is supposed to be "if you ever had a senior prom"	None	None
redesign	None	None	no capitalization
trading cards	First sentence strangely includes an ellipsis	The subject reads, "Trading Stong-gum"	The word "With" should not be capitalized
retirement	Josh lacks punctuation in his email	Josh misspells "sincerely" as "sincerly"	josh has no capitalization
coloring	There are question marks after the ellipsis	"Ridiculous" is misspelled as "rediculous"; "thats" does not have an apostrophe	None
4 branches	the email lacks two commas: one after "Hey Strong Bad" and another after "ur biggest fan"	Spanky uses internet shorthand	"elgrondo" is supposed to be capitalized
the chair	None	"Doesnt" is missing an apostrophe; "truly" is misspelled as "truely"	None
strong badathlon	None	None	"Bad", "I’ve", "The Cheat" and "Homestar" are all not capitalized
the movies	There is an unnecessary period at the end of "TN"	None	"has" is not capitalized
rough copy	Malinko says "I hope you interested"	Misspells "problems" as "promblems"	Unnecessarily capitalizes "Draw", forgets to capitalize "I" and "The Cheat" several times
more armies	Paul uses a period instead of a question mark. His question does not have an "or" before the third listed item. He also uses "that" instead of "who".	None	None
mini-golf	The phrase "miniature golf course" is used too often.	"Noone" is spelled as one word.	None
pizza joint	Daphne types "me and my girls" instead of "my girls and I"	None	None
web comics	Gunkiller types "Me and some of my friends" instead of "Some of my friends and I" and has no punctuation after "Thanks a lot".	None	None
business trip	None	Roxy misspells "sbemail" as "sbmail."	"think about it" is missing capitalization.
yes, wrestling	Gardenboy types a period in place of a comma and in place of a question mark. There's also no punctuation after his name or "Bfn."	None	None
nightlife	Josh ends his first sentence with a question mark in place of a period.	"Mr." is misspelled as "mr".	"mr" should be capitalized.
fan club	David uses two apostrophes in the word "it’’s" which shouldn't have any, and uses the word "whose" when he should have used the word "who’s".	None	None
pet show	The email's greeting does not have a comma at the end of it.	The term "Haihai" is written in lolspeak.	None
licensed	No commas where needed.	Pimple is misspelled as Pilmple.	Did not capitalize "the Cheat", "strong Bad" and "receiving".
shapeshifter	Paxton Westergard did not separate his name and the town where he is from by using either a line break or a comma.	"What" is misspelled as "waht".	None
SBCG4AP Advertisement	"To" should be in the phrase "You need make".	"Best" is misspelled as "brst".	None
specially marked	None	Misspells "cereal" as "cerial".	None
love poems	There are unnecessary square brackets around the word "Bad", and "my words which I speak" is unusually phrased (though probably intended for comic effect).	The words "absotively" (a portmanteau of "absolutely" and "positively") and "blunderous" are not generally regarded as correct English (though again, this may have been intended for comic effect).	None
hiding	The first sentence omits a question mark. There are three cases for the second sentence: "you right." is missing a comma and a question mark, the sentence ends with an unnecessary "right", or there is a word missing at the end of the sentence.	"Noone" is spelled as one word.	None
your edge	None	Misspells "shenanigans" as "shennanigans", and "haven’t" as "heven’t".	None
magic trick	Uses the singular article "a" in "Her are a tips", and the preposition "to" rather than "for".	Misspells "Here" as "Her".	Fails to capitalize "sweden" and "homestar runner".
being mean	Types a period instead of a question mark after question	None	None
email thunder	The sentence in the body is a run-on	Misspells "us" as "use"	None
imaginary	None	None	"My" should be capitalized.
dictionary	Describes Strong Bad as the "superest", "awesomest" guy ever	Spells "for" as "fo"	None

Other Poorly Written Emails

This is the list for bonus emails in the strongbad_email.exe DVD extras.

Email	Poor Grammar and Punctuation	Poor Spelling	Poor Capitalization
E-mail Birds	Bettina's email is missing punctuation; Jeffrey uses the word "dork" too often; Naomi has a tenuous grasp on the English language	None	bettina's email has no capitalization
Videro Games	There are two cases for the first sentence: "What is your opinion of the effects "of in" video games on children?" has an unnecessary "in", or it is missing a word between "of" and "in".	None	None

Emails that spell Strong Bad/Strong Badia as one word

Email who now?

Strong Bad and/or Strong Badia are sometimes incorrectly written as single words in the greeting, subject, or body of an email.

Beyond simple misspellings, the proliferation of "Strongbad" is likely due in part to how his name is rendered in various facets of the email-checking process. As email addresses cannot include spaces, "strongbad@homestarrunner.com" may have led people to believe his name was simply "Strongbad". Similarly, Strong Bad typically checks his email using the application "strongbad_email.exe" ("strongbad's_email" on the Tandy 400), a name shared by the Strong Bad Email DVD series.

Although The Paper (and its successor) read "Click here to e-mail strong bad", the Compé-per instead read "click to email strongbad", an oddity rectified by the CGI Paper using "email strong bad" again as usual.

This issue, which has continued through posts directed to @StrongBadActual, is occasionally remarked upon by Strong Bad.

halloweener — "Dear Strongbad," sugarbob — "DEAR STRONGBAD" ghosts — "Are there any ghosts in Strongbadia?" fingers — The second email opens with "Yo Strongbad." 2 emails — During the fast forward, an email is shown that reads "Hey Strongbad." privileges — "Dear strongbad," Strong Bad reads his typed-together name especially quickly. pom pom — "Dear Strongbad," crying — "YO Yo Strongbad, Hey Strongbad..." part-time job — "Dear Strongbad," dreamail — "Hey StrongBad" long pants — "Dear Strongbad," do over — "Dear Strongbad," boring (really) — "Dear Strongbad," space program — "Dear Strongbad, Does Strongbadia have a space program?" secret identity — "Dear Strongbad," myths & legends — "Hey Strongbad," (the subject similarly reads "Hey Strongbad!") Strong Bad reads the misspelling of his name as "Two words. Two different words. That are not one word. That are 'Strong' and 'Bad'." The email mentions "Strong Badia", correctly spelling it as two words. candy product — "Dear Strongbad"

keep cool — "How hot is it right now in Strongbadia?" trading cards — "Hey Strongbad-" what i want — "Dear Strongbad," looking old — "Dear Strongbad," unnatural — "Hey Strongbad," The email mentions "Strong Badia", correctly spelling it as two words. rough copy — "Dear Strongbad," more armies — "I have three sons that wish to join the Strongbadia army." The email's subject line spells "Strong Badia's Army" correctly. the paper — "Dear Strongbad," mini-golf — "Helllooooooo Strongbad," hygiene — "Dear Strongbad," pizza joint — "I was wondering if there is a pizza joint somewhere in Strongbadia" "Strong Bad" is spelled as two words in the email's greeting. nightlife — "I was wondering what the nightlife is like in strongbadia?" "Strong Bad" is spelled as two words in the email's subject. shapeshifter — "Dear Strongbad," specially marked — "Hey ho, Strongbad." your edge — "Hey Strongbad-" magic trick — subject: "Srongbad email"

See Also

• Strong Bad's Spelling
• Stong Bad