Hi everybody!
David Farber dfarber@numenor.com wrote:
That's funny, because seeing it at the end of Göran's postscripts always made me think that someone else had written the postscript--someone whose initials were 'DS'.
Yes, that's ironical. Not until Patrik explained that it means "den samme" did I vaguely remember this. It has sort of always been a habit to put it in there. The point of it is that since a PS appears below the signing this, as Patrik already explained, clarifies that the PS was written by the same person.
Another thing - what kind of mailinglist greetings do you use? Dan uses the "Hi folks!" greeting which is neutral in gender etc. I often like to write "Hi guys!" but somehow (even if it isn't gender specific in speech nowadays - I have been told) in writing it does seem to imply males to me. Or does it? Would it be "kosher" to use that?
As a homebrewed variant I have been using "Hi all!" but it limps a bit (might be a Swedish saying). :-)
Anyway, I did some searches on Google groups regarding the PS/DS thing, this is a bit interesting. For obvious reasons it seems only Swedes use the DS thing. :-) But hey, I am trying to start a trend here! But when adding a PSS (or a PPS - both variants occur) we also seem to end that with a corresponding DSS or DDS - and I have no idea what that should mean - perhaps it just "looks cool".
After checking around it also seems that most people think it should be "PPS" as in "post post scriptum". But somewhere I saw that it could mean "post scriptum secundum". He.
regards, Göran