[B-Greek] [Fwd: Re: English "postscriptives"]

Murray Hogg muzhogg at netspace.net.au
Sat Jan 17 18:10:59 EST 2009


Hi Oun Kwon,

"Postscript" just means "written after" - clearly it can refer to the endings which are "written after" the root term in languages such as Korean and Japanese, but it can also refer to a short comment "written after" the body of a letter (hence the use of "P.S." to signify a "post-script" to a letter), and it can even be used as a figure of speech to refer to something which happens after an event - e.g. "As a post-script to World War II, Britain was forced to give up most of her overseas possessions." The English usage, in other words, can be quite broad.

I'm not sure whether referring to words such as DE as "postscriptives" is common - I used it because my lecturer in introductory Greek did so. I'm not sure whether he used it in a technical sense, or whether it was just a handy word to describe the phenomenon whereby such terms are "written after" the first word (or idea) in a Greek sentence.

Blessings,
Murray Hogg

Oun Kwon wrote:
> The way I understand the term 'postscripts' is a part of word which is
> attached at the tail. E.g. In Korean and Japanese, these are
> equivalent to   'prepositions' in English.  Maybe I'm confused. The
> same term may mean differently in different languages?
> 
> Oun Kwon.
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