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The afterthought that sometimes outshines the entire letter.
means A note tacked on after a letter's signature, added once the writer realized they weren't quite done.
from From Latin post scriptum, meaning 'written after' — post (after) plus scriptum (written), the past participle of scribere, 'to write.' It entered English through the practical habit of letter-writers who, having already signed off, found one more thing worth saying and simply wrote it below, labeling it honestly as what it was: an afterward.
- origin
- Latin post scriptum, written after
- also means
- Adobe's page-description language, PDF's ancestor
- irony
- often contains the actual point
- psychology
- readers remember last lines best