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What is this P.S. thing we write at the end of a message?
2007/10/18,10:34

I turned to my friend and colleague and asked

What is this P.S. thing we write at the end of a message?

An intelligent man who has answer or who will find an answer for any question I ask, he instantly told me that it means Post Script.

We both could not come to an agreeable conclusion ( imagination!) on how this word would have been derived.

I googled a while ago and came across interesting perspectives on this term.

* It is derived from the latin word Post Scriptum which means 'After Writing'.   Funny! Some say that it is meant for mentioning something hastily and i   incidentally

* It is used always after Signature ( Post Signature? )

* http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/post_scriptum offers another interesting    perspective. When an article which is already published and known is appended, the appended portion is referred as P.S. ( Post Script )   I think this makes more sense. This distinguishes the difference between  what was original or the first version and what was added so that one could appreciate the evolution in the thinking ( for all streams ) or discovery ( in case of a    scientific finding- for example )

When I use P.S. in my email, it is usually an information not asked directly or not the main content of my message. It is an useful supplementary information to the subject matter.

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