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'.
david
At 11:31 AM 10/29/2002 +0100, you wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:51:46PM +0100, Göran Hultgren wrote:
Quoting David Farber dfarber@numenor.com:
Göran - Why do you always end your postscripts with 'DS'?
david
A good question David! I have no idea! :-)
When you asked I tried to find on the net why that is customary (at least in Swedish) but I didn't find anything. Isn't that "customary" in English? Hmmm. I will try to find out.
I have been taught that it's for "den samme" ("the same [person]"), meaning the postscript is written by the same person as the rest of the letter, which suggests it's a Swedish thing, although it could originally be from Latin or French or German for all I know.
-- David Farber dfarber@numenor.com