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You mention "TFA" a couple of times, what is it?
by pantulis 6y ago
You mention "TFA" a couple of times, what is it?
- vnorilo 6y agoThe featured article.
- pantulis 6y agoThanks!
- mxmilkiib 6y agoRead The Featured Manual
- meowface 6y agoI always considered the middle word something slightly different...
- pertymcpert 6y agoYeah. I thought it was odd to use the term TFA when you're not trying to attack the piece.
- meowface 6y agoSame. When I'm trying to be neutral, I usually just say "the article" / "the submitted article". TFA to me carries the same kind of connotation as "TFM" in "RTFM".
- mannykannot 6y agoIt's a context-sensitive grammar (OK, not strictly...)
- jfengel 6y agoOld joke explained: RTFA means Read The Fine Article -- except that F doesn't really stand for fine. It's usually meant as a crabby way of saying "The article answers your question". From that, "TFA" just means "The Article", but without any of the crabbiness, and without the F really standing for anything. That's just a shortcut, and a nice instance where a bit of Internet lore became nicer rather than meaner.
- gamacodre 6y agoI'll sometimes read TFA as "the featured article," but I don't know whether I picked that up along the way or invented it to make internal sense of nice things said about TFA. RTFA derives directly from RTFM ("Read The ... Manual"), which I always interpret with the full force of the embedded expletive.