How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2

Re:How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2 by tragomaskhalos on Thursday August 13, 2015 @08:20AM (#10053550)

You can somewhat offset premature specialisation by doing a mad combination of A levels - e.g. I did Pure Maths, Applied Maths and (ancient) Greek (initially Latin as well but gave it up as four was too much like hard work) :)

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Re:How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2 by davnicwil on Thursday August 13, 2015 @03:51PM (#10056761)

That's an impressive mix! There's a joke in there somewhere about maths and ancient greek complementing each other quite well ;-)

Question for you - roughly when did you take those A levels?

When I did my Maths A-level it was just one subject with 4 pure modules, and 2 applied modules (I did Decision Maths and Mechanics - again, another pointer to specialisation towards Physics/Computer Science).

I'm not sure if there was such a thing as separate pure and applied maths A-levels (IIRC the body was AQA) - could be wrong of course, but would be interested to know if this was a thing before, or after, I did mine, as I think it's actually a pretty good idea.

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Re:How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2 by tragomaskhalos on Sunday August 16, 2015 @06:50AM (#10068569)

This was way back in I think 1983, since when successive governments have jiggered about with the system god knows how many times of course!

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