what's the meaning of ps?

Question

you know, the thing you write just at the end of a letter, you say ps... what does it mean???

Answer 1

Post script....

Answer 2

A postscript (from post scriptum, a Latin expression meaning "after writing" and abbreviated P.S.) is a sentence, paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book. In a book or essay, a more carefully-composed addition (e.g., for a second edition) is called an afterword. An afterword, not usually called a postscript, is written in response to critical remarks on the first edition. The word has, poetically, been used to refer to any sort of addendum to some main work, even if not attached to a main work, as in Søren Kierkegaard's book titled Concluding Unscientific Postscript.

In the age of e-mail, postscripts have become unnecessary: any modifications or additions to the body of a letter may simply be inserted within the e-mail before sending, though the convenience of a post-scripted addition is always available. Postscripts in e-mails and on message boards are most often used when the author wants to add something totally unrelated to the main body of text, and may otherwise break the flow of the message.

Perhaps the most common postscript found in love letters is "P.S. I love you!" This title was given to at least two popular songs, one by Rosemary Clooney and one by The Beatles.

P.S. is sometimes used as a purely stylistic touch, when it isn't really necessary.

P.P.S. is a "Post-postscript" and allows the letter writer to add even more thoughts after the first postscript. To continue, a third postscript would be a P.P.P.S. and so on, although these additions are rarely used in practice. They might be used in a very informal text such as a message on a discussion board or a personal e-mail to someone you have known for quite some time. They are considered very poor writing style. In popular culture, however, it is often displayed as "P.S.S". This would be incorrect, as it would literally mean "After Script Script"

Answer 3

I know it as Post Script - Latin for "after the letter is finished" and it had a very good place where all letters were hand written in the old days and where they didn't have the luxary of copy and paste and E-Mail as we have today.

In those days, if you finished your letter to somebody, signed your name and then remembered you must include something or say something more that you forgot about in the letter, you used "Post Script" to add the little more in stead of rewriting the whole letter again to include the little bit.

Why people still use it today is possibly more to do with the importance they place on the PS portion of a letter/E-mail etc. to say something they want you to remember like "PS I love you" or "PS See you tonight" etc.

Answer 4

Post Script.

Something after you have finished writing. You can also have PS at the front but then its Pre Script.

IMS script for In the Middle Script etc.

Answer 5

Post Scriptum : it's Latin and it means 'after (the)written '; that's why you always place it at the end of a letter;)

Answer 6

Post Script...it means an add on. Something you forgot to put in the body of the letter.

Answer 7

Post Script - it is script (writing) that comes after the main letter, indicating the writer did not think of it until he/she had closed out the letter.

Answer 8

Post Script - after script

Answer 9

post scriptum.. meaning after the written in latin

Answer 10

post script-after text