A Use for QuickPress: Post Script

We have all come to the end of a letter. After we have signed our name, no sooner does the pen leave the page or fingers leave the keyboard, when we think of a crucial tidbit of information that can not be left out. The thought so important it must be added to the letter, no matter the code of conduct. To remain within the bounds of decency, the modern genteel human will preempt their important tid bit with a P.S.

I.E. “P.S. Vacuum cleaner bit the dust, literally!”

P.S. stands for Post Script. Script for the act of the writer signing his name and post for the occurrence of the note after the writer had penned his name.

In the binary age, the common use of “P.S.” is in the decline. Modern day letter writers are far more tempted by a edited revision or add additional paragraph, to mess with the capitalized letters and punctuation.

However this is not the point of my QuickPress note. I would like to bring to your attention the manor in which things are named. P.S. was the shortened version of Post Script, which is a altered version of Post Scriptum. Scriptum is the Latin word to write, ergo Post Scriptum means “After Writing”.

Yet the post office is not place of past offices. As we can see Post Scriptum gave birth to P.S. and P.S. gave birth to the term Post, meaning mail office or place you post your script, post script.

The End

P.S. If you need more proof that history is Pop Culture, than I will write another “A Use for QuickPress”.