[OT] Inquiring Minds want to know WAS: Re: Envy or Store or what?

David Farber dfarber at numenor.com
Tue Oct 29 17:14:47 UTC 2002


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 at 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.
>
>
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David Farber
dfarber at numenor.com



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