Talk:Postscript

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Contents 1 PP 2 P.S.S. 3 End of postscript 4 What's wrong with trivia? 5 Where should be exactly located the "P.S." in a letter? at the very end? after the famous "Sincerely yours"?

[edit] PP

what does pp stand for on a letter-? 217.169.51.254

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It stands for per procuram and has nothing to do with postscript Braeside

[edit] P.S.S.

I have seen people use P.S.S. instead of P.P.S. I'm a little confused, any thoughts on that? 149.169.89.176 03:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm thinking P.S.S. is probably just incorrect -Power Slave 11:45, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

That would be, "Post script-script". Those people are just wrong. ISAYsorry 02:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. It's perhaps worth mentioning that outside of casual writing (such as e-mails), anything beyond a simple 'PS' is likely to be seen as poor style and disorganised. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.143.122.58 (talk) 16:46, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

I added it to the content, as I can see that this might be true, but still it'd be best if we have sources. I wanted to put up a "citation needed" tag, but decided otherwise since this page is already marked unreferenced. I might as well go find some sources now.

石川 (talk) 11:45, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Added the tag anyway. 石川 (talk) 11:50, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I use P.S.S and P.S.S.S, and so on, but one of my friends says "It's not written P.S.S, it's written P.P.S. I'm confused as well. 71.212.122.197 (talk) 05:12, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] End of postscript

In Norwegian a postscript is initiated with "p.s." and ends with "d.s." Is this practice unknown in English writing? __meco 08:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I haven't seen any usage of that in English. McKay 16:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

We use "D.S." in Swedish, too, and apparently it's the abbreviated form of the Latin "Deinde Scriptum" (lat. "thereafter" + "written text" (roughly)). However, many Swedes take it to mean "densamme" - meaning "the same" - indicating that the Postscript is written by the same person who wrote the text that precedes it (as opposed to being an addendum by another person, or the like). --TheFinalFraek 15:11, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What's wrong with trivia?

May I ask why the "trivia flag" was added to this entry? I thought the notes added were rather informative, and contributed to the quality of this article. While I understand the trivia policy, in my opinion this flag should be used sparingly. In this particular case, I think it is unwaranted, and request that the flag either be removed or be defended on the talk page.

Dr. T. 16:03, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I think the guideline has to do more with style rather than content. No one would disagree that the notes are informative, it's to present them in an unorganized list that people advise against. I've sorted them into "Usage" and "References in popular culture", in keeping with the style of other pages. How does it look right now? One might argue that now it needs to be expanded, though. 石川 (talk) 11:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Where should be exactly located the "P.S." in a letter? at the very end? after the famous "Sincerely yours"?