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Sorry for the OT, what is "TFA"?
by hexfran 7y ago
Sorry for the OT, what is "TFA"?
- ludwigvan 7y agohttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
- OJFord 7y agoIt's the same as OP, except it only means the Post, not the Poster. (The F* Article.) Usually it's a kind of negative retort - 'well if you'd actually bothered to read TFA then ...' - but increasingly it seems to be used without such emotion (particularly, to me anyway, on HN) to mean simply 'the submission'.
- mceachen 7y agoSorry. The Fine Article. I didn't mean it in the disparaging connotation. It's a reference to RTFM, Read The Fine Manual. TIL: RTFM was a phrase from the 40s : "Read the field manual."
- panopticon 7y agoI never seen the F in RTFM mean “fine” before. I’ve always seen it used as the more vulgar “read the f*ing manual”.
- j88439h84 7y agoI believe that's the joke.
- wtetzner 7y agoI always read it as "the featured article".