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David Frum: (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2025 OP
What's a PS? littlemissmartypants Dec 2025 #1
Post script? BidenRocks Dec 2025 #2
From the Dark Ages Nasruddin Dec 2025 #5
That's the way I take it. JoetheShow Dec 2025 #3
"America" under Trump is becoming a thing of the past. thought crime Dec 2025 #4
And the interests of Vladimir Putin. nt hvn_nbr_2 Dec 2025 #6
PS may also mean bmichaelh Dec 2025 #7

Nasruddin

(1,258 posts)
5. From the Dark Ages
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:24 PM
Dec 2025

In the long, miserable Dark Ages, you would carefully dictate your words of wisdom to a scribe, and pay a pretty penny to do so.
After carefully orally editing and writing it out in dense, beautiful and ornate calligraphy, addressing the envelope, preparing the stamp, you would suddenly realize that you had forgotten to tell Aunt Sally that you would attend her daughter's wedding, or the Cubs had just pulled it out in the ninth inning. So your scribe would, if space and penny permit, add this after the X you'd made for a signature. Hence "post" = after and "scriptum" = the written.

Of course nowadays we just edit the text. Or like here, we edit it later and leave behind a mystery edit notation.

JoetheShow

(155 posts)
3. That's the way I take it.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 08:02 PM
Dec 2025

He's responding her statement, pointing out there is nothing about American interests in his actions.

thought crime

(1,569 posts)
4. "America" under Trump is becoming a thing of the past.
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 01:20 AM
Dec 2025

I remember America; it wasn't like this.

bmichaelh

(1,185 posts)
7. PS may also mean
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 04:53 PM
Dec 2025

Parliamentary State Secretary (Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär)

German abbreviation is (PStS)

political appointee who is concurrently an elected member of the German parliament

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