"Post script is usually written when a writer forgets to write something on the main body of the letter and wants to add on to what he had written on the letter." But in this age of email and word processors, why would anyone want to use P.S.? Is its usage still relevant and any particular reason for it?
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I usually use it purposely to add something related to the email, but that I don't want to mix with the rest, likely to let the reader to focus more easily on the part of the email I think it's more important; I like to use it like a sort of "side note", placed after the written text (lit. latin "post scriptum" can be translated as "after the written (text)") |
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The postscript is indeed of limited use, but it might still be useful when one has something else to say, but doesn't want to compose the email all over again. People still do compose letters from time to time, and send them on paper. I do it maybe once a year, and I can see it coming up where I have something to add, but don't want to print the letter again. There may well come a time where people don't know what "P.S." means, just as some people don't realize that "R.S.V.P." means to reply soonest, please. —Love, Neil. P.S., It also might be useful if one is mimicking an old-style letter format. |
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It seems perfectly acceptable to include a PS in a body of an email for various reasons. The two I can think of are:
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