The UK university system does have some rather impenetrable and inexplicable points - the university I went to in Dublin (near enough) didn't give firsts on principle. And it's kind of the same with the Sheffield MA - anything over 80 (not even sure it's out of a theoretical 100) and you should be deleriously happy.
And today I am - 83 for my latest J-E translation! It was a great source text, "Don't make children write poetry!" by a literary critic and novelist Maruya Saiichi. You can feel his immense frustration with schools and worship of poetry in every line. It was great fun to translate.
Pity not all the translation material in the world is like that, as I well know.
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