Timeline for What is the correct usage of "P.S." in Emails?
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| Feb 11, 2014 at 9:12 | comment | added | CLockeWork | In a quick, informal email? Your basis of noise reduction is a factor most people are never going to notice let alone care about. I would say that the visual structure (the post script being used to separate trivial and unconnected appendices) is more important. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 23:01 | comment | added | virtualxtc |
@CLockeWork in that instance it's trivial to put Please give Janie my love. directly before the closing (with no P.S.) - thereby reducing the noise of a straggling sentence after your closing.
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| Feb 10, 2014 at 9:20 | comment | added | CLockeWork | Actually it can increase clarity by not including things that are very short, and unconnected to the body, in the body. As an afterthought to the email body I agree that we should revisit what we wrote. However, saying such things as "P.S - Please give Janie my love." would be acceptable in an informal email. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 8:35 | comment | added | virtualxtc | @CLockeWork even in informal email you should want to be clear; using PS reduces clarity. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 8:34 | comment | added | virtualxtc | @PraveshParekh references added just for you. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 8:33 | history | edited | virtualxtc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2014 at 23:33 | comment | added | Pravesh Parekh | That is your personal opinion. Where exactly have you read that PS is sloppy and should never be used? | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 21:01 | comment | added | virtualxtc | @PraveshParekh yes, PS is sloppy; it rescues your signal-to-noise by making it less clear what the purpose of your email was as a PS comment may be an entirely different subject matter (and perhaps should be a different email) or an aside, or something you thought of that needs an urgent response. Not using it forces you to decide where in the message the information is actually appropriate, and help you make it more clear as to why that information is there. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Pravesh Parekh | Do you have any particular basis for concluding that "PS should never be used in an email?" | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 9:55 | comment | added | CLockeWork | Depends on the email. P.S is valid in an informal email, and is also acceptable when content after the P.S is completely unrelated to the email body. | |
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| Feb 7, 2014 at 4:11 | history | answered | virtualxtc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |