| Abstract from DBPedia | A postscript (P.S., PS, PS.) is an afterthought, thought that is occurring after the letter has been written and signed. The term comes from the Latin post scriptum, an expression meaning "written after" (which may be interpreted in the sense of "that which comes after the writing"). A postscript may be a sentence, a paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book. In a book or essay, a more carefully composed addition (e.g., for a second edition) is called an afterword. The word "postscript" has poetically been used to refer to any sort of addendum to some main work even if it is not attached to a main work, for example Søren Kierkegaard's book titled Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Sometimes when additional points are made after the first postscript, abbreviations such as P.P.S. (post-post-scriptum) and P.P.P.S. (post-post-post-scriptum) and so on are added, ad infinitum.追伸（ついしん）とは、手紙などの最後に、付け加える形で足された文章のこと。二伸。英語のpostscriptの頭文字からP.S.またはPS（「P.S」は間違い）とも書く。 通常、手紙の末尾、宛先・差出人名が書かれたさらに後に、「追伸」「追」「P.S.」「PS」を行頭に置く。 手書きによる手紙では、書き忘れた文を本文内に挿入することができない。そのため、最初から書き直すのも大変なので、よく使われる便利な言葉である。電子メールは書き直しが可能なため、本来は使用する必要はないが、それまでの話題を変えるための語、一呼吸置くための語と解釈している人もいる。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Postscript) |
