Discussion: Anyone do postscript anymore?

[Whiskey 7]

Like I ask, in days of old, when you put pen to paper or typed on a typewriter (carbon copies anyone?) we were using postscripts and I wonder, in this day and age if you or anyone anymore uses or has the habit of using this relic?

I for one, still in email 'specially, and yes you can too instantly delete and add as you see fit (of course), still throw an occasional PS: at the bottom like this..

Hello there George.

For sure I will call before arriving in the Antarctic, but how may fights arrive there on Wednesdays?

Cheers, and put some beer on ice. I'll need it

Love Thelma

PS: do I need bring something special for the occasion?

Discuss?

[Tsakali]

that's kinda interesting since i never thought about it that way. So yeah , there should be no need to PS anymore, but it's a great way to throw in some quick info without any proper write up around it, or having to work it in somewhere else in the body. I use it sometimes in emails.

It seems that PS has retained its usability if not for its original intent.

[Whiskey 7]

........ it's a great way to throw in some quick info without any proper write up ......

I always loved it, if only for that reason

PS: Personally, I just sent an email to my Real Estate agent, adding a PS and thought she'll think BOF (boring old fart) using postscript (if she really knew what it was?) ... Just thought I'd ask here for thoughts...

[Eraser]

Yeah I still use it sometimes because of the reason Tsakali said.

For a moment though, I thought this was about the postscript language.

[Ryoki]

Interesting... i've always considered a PS a style thing, but of course it has it's origin in being unable to delete things.

Aye i still use it, though not often.

[HomerJ]

Interesting... i've always considered a PS a style thing, but of course it has it's origin in being unable to delete things.

Aye i still use it, though not often.

This.
Useful on things like typewriters or hand written messages so you didn't have to retype or rewrite the whole message, but archaic when you can put the message anywhere in modern communication. In your example Whiskey, the P.S. could have been cut and pasted at the end of the second sentence making it completely unnecessary. It makes the message disjointed and reads poorly as a result. What's worse is people do this intentionally in business correspondence all the time in an effort to seem educated, but it has the negative effect in making them look like they can't write a message that flows and are all over the place mentally.

[seremtan]

you use it when the idea you want to express is unrelated, or only tangentially related, to the main content of the email

PS fuck u...

[Whiskey 7]

you use it when the idea you want to express is unrelated, or only tangentially related, to the main content of the email

PS fuck u...

Agree seremtan

There were 3 events in the communication as I saw it
1. call before arriving
2. flights on Wednesdays
3. beer on ice

Although in the same text, the question about bringing something special was, how to put this without obviously offering Thelma it was supposed to be addition, wait, no and extra, not after thought; very special and to the point of being blunt, perhaps if you prefer, sexually?

Tangentially, I think I'll learn to love that word seremtan.

HomerJ, I agree adding postscripts seems archaic in modern communication, that's my point in asking for discussion.

I could have cut and pasted making the PS completely unnecessary for sure, but I can't fathom "... your message disjointed and reading poorly ... " as it was as above, intentionally added to draw attention

I too haven't seen this in business correspondence recently, but again and lets face it, 50% of people are all over the place mentally* and 50% aren't

* Statistics; who'd live with them?

[MKJ]

you use it when the idea you want to express is unrelated, or only tangentially related, to the main content of the email

PS fuck u...

yes

[Captain]

6 words combined in your last 3 posts.

[MKJ]

quality vs quantity

[seremtan]

0-0 draw