More Postage

nage” is new to me. It certainly has a bit of class. With “signs” you’re just referring to a collection of individual objects, but “signage” seems to link them together somehow, as separate manifestations (a manifestationage?….no, maybe not) of some deeper totality. Or maybe it’s something that just happens, without any human agency: signage appears, like foliage, and using the term reflects a general feeling that we’re no longer in control, that there are hidden forces at work doing things like, um, putting up signs.