Bib: PS don't you think it's time you threw out those shoes?Or is it the brutally inept use of AKA?
Bub: Remember where I got these shoes, PS? And PS, who's talking about shoes, Ms. BOGO slut?
Bib. P.S. Whose the one that drove us to the mall in the FIRST place!
Kate: I was talking to John that other dayI can't really make a positive case for either, so I shall focus on the purely negative aspects of each. These are legion. For starters, the use of initialisms in spoken is english is rarely necessary. The obfuscation often caused by these linguistic shibboleths frequently outweigh the benefit of the time saved by eliminating information.
Max: AKA rapist king
Kate: AKA the best rapist of life
Max: AKA i like to rape guys because i'm a closet case?
But also, it's just retarded. PS? It's stupid enough to use PS in written communication, let alone conversation. Anyone who ends a letter with a PS is either a) living in a time period where they used quills or b) incapable of adequately planning for small-form projects such as written correspondence and should thus be deemed a candidate for elimination from the species.
To use PS in electronic communication -- which allows almost unrestricted power to revise -- is at best horribly prententious, and at worst needlessly cute.
To use it in spoken communication as a cheap filler word, is a crime against humanity.
On the otherhand the abuse of AKA is also severe. Yes, it does translate to AKA, so it's use is not precisely incorrect. But like the infamous "literally", it's used too often and "not correctly enough" to escape censure. In the example above, AKA is used to denote a sort of divisive punctuation between related thoughts AKA a comma.
It's being used as a comma. You wouldn't say the word "comma" would you? (Would you??) As such, don't use AKA.
P.S. Don't use P.S. either.
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