US student marks apology letter from ex-girlfriend and sends it back to her
An American student has responded to a lengthy apology letter from his ex-girlfriend by correcting it in red marker and grading before sending it back.
Nick Lutz, a student at University of Central Florida, graded his ex's four-page note a D minus (61/100), explaining that he “took off points” for lack of indentation, faulty reasoning, an overly long introduction, a condensed conclusion and several grammatical errors:
"Long intro, short conclusion, short hypothesis but nothing to back it up. Details are important. If you want to be believed, back it up with proof.
"You claim that cheating never occurred but place blame on yourself — then what for? Need to stop contradicting your own story and pick a side."
When your ex writes you an apology letter so you grade it to send it back pic.twitter.com/MczdjcCiil
— Nick Lutz (@NickLutz12) 17 February 2017
Mr Lutz concluded that "while this gesture is appreciated I would prefer details over statements. Revision for half credit will be accepted."
The student told BBC's Newsbeat that the couple had dated for about eight months before he broke the relationship off.
He said that he decided to mark the letter as a "joke" with his friends.
However, when he shared it on Twitter, a few more people got to see his ex's spelling mistakes as the amended letter went viral, with over 100,000 retweets and 300,000 likes at the time of this article.
Twitter users were quick to jump in to help Nick find errors that he hadn’t picked up.
@NickLutz12 misspelled that so I say they should get a 58 pic.twitter.com/7r94U7HQnT
— Rachel Green (@katiemoe_) 18 February 2017
@NickLutz12@fillegrossiere ok should have failed her. You missed that she listed "a lot" as one word in her intro.
— Dr Petty Spaghetti�� (@waywardpug) 18 February 2017
@NickLutz12 there were quite a few missing apostrophes in contractions, if you wanna count off points for that too :( ��
— kae. (@TheKaelye) 18 February 2017