Timeline for What is the correct usage of "P.S." in Emails?
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| Mar 7, 2018 at 10:32 | history | edited | Secespitus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2016 at 21:28 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| S Nov 5, 2016 at 1:25 | comment | added | hiring manager | Please be prepared to present on the following: Describe the considerations impacting first-generation college students and their families when seeking financial aid. Your presentation should last approximately 20 minutes, with an additional 10-15 minutes for Q&A. Thank you, [email sender] P.S. Happy belated birthday! | |
| S Nov 5, 2016 at 1:25 | comment | added | hiring manager | I just recently used it in the following way: Hello [email recipient], I wanted to provide you with some preliminary information regarding your presentation topic so that you will have time to prepare. I will provide further updates regarding the day’s agenda and room location(s) early next week. (continued) | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 18:24 | comment | added | Featherball | I am so glad this got asked. +1 million | |
| Nov 1, 2016 at 21:16 | answer | added | Tom J | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 7:41 | answer | added | Rajai | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 12:51 | answer | added | Bozena Benton | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 19:23 | comment | added | user10895 | I think you take yourselves too seriously. You state a valid opinion about formal emails, especially if the person you are addressing is relatively unknown to you and is judging your email as an indicator of how well you conform to the principles of Brevity and Clarity but informal emails among friends a postscript can add a sense of intimacy and a stylistic tradition sometimes lost in the digital process. I still have friends who argue the supremacy of digital over analog when it comes to music when actually the subjective "ear of the beholder" is also a valid, if personal, point of "view." | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 4:11 | answer | added | virtualxtc | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 14:23 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | This is borderline writers/English, so I think we should be inclusive and allow this here. It's also kind of a dupe of an existing question - it got a flag for that - with a slightly different spin. To that user, thanks for flagging, but I think it fails the test of answers interchangeable between the two questions = duplicate. | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 8:43 | answer | added | Abhishek Kumar Singh | timeline score: -6 | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 8:51 | vote | accept | tugberk | ||
| Jun 8, 2011 at 11:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWriters/status/78421971255300096 | ||
| Jun 7, 2011 at 14:46 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Alenanno: Having trawled over some more writers.se questions for the first time in months, I see they do actually cover things like this, so I'm retreating somewhat from my earlier position. But EL&U has often overlapped in the general area - witness that outrageous viral question about nested [sic]'s - and originally I hadn't realised writers.se went much further than helping out budding authors. | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 14:38 | comment | added | Ralph Gallagher | Vote to close as a duplicate of writers.stackexchange.com/questions/2771/… | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 14:38 | comment | added | Ralph Gallagher | possible duplicate of Is Postscript still useful in the age of email? | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 9:16 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jun 7, 2011 at 9:12 | comment | added | Alenanno | @FumbleFingers: But I'd like to know why you think it's about English usage... Really, I mean... :) | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 1:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Alenanno: I don't suppose you'll be persuaded, and there are already 4 votes to close, so you're obviously not alone. I still think it's about usage of the English language, not a style question as I understand writers.se | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 0:04 | comment | added | Alenanno | @FumbleFingers: I'll tell you my point of view: I didn't exactly voted to close, I voted to migrate the questions to the Writers SE. I think it is far more related to the question than this SE does, in my opinion. This is a question about style, not about English. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 22:48 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't get the votes to close. P.S. is a linguistic element, and email is a linguistic medium. The proper usage is a reasonable thing to ask about, even if it's not easy to arrive at a concensus. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 21:07 | answer | added | ESultanik | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 20:45 | answer | added | Jez | timeline score: 39 | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 20:44 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 33 | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 20:43 | comment | added | Alenanno | What about French, Spanish, Italian, German? If I copied and pasted this question in any of those SE sites (pretending some of them already exist), the question would "fit"... Unless you're asking for something specifically about English usage of P.S., then I'd be wrong. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 20:40 | comment | added | tugberk | @Alenanno Uhm, most probably you might be wrong. Because there is no such a thing like P.S. in Turkish. At least, not that I know of. | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 20:38 | comment | added | Alenanno | Uhm, maybe I'm wrong, but to me this question looks more related to "how to write an e-mail" rather than something strictly related to English... | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 20:31 | history | asked | tugberk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |