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What is TFA?
by davidmurdoch 5y ago
What is TFA?
- jcims 5y agoThe Fabulous Article
- Minor49er 5y agoSimilar to how RTFM stands for "Read The Fabulous Manual"
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- macksd 5y agoI will now be reading "AF" as "as fabulous".
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- dmitshur 5y agoI didn’t know what TFA was and my best guess was “the full article”. This makes me realize RTFM could also be interpreted as read the full manual, which feels amusing.
- marcosdumay 5y agoWhat, you never read all of the man pages on your Linux distro?
- moshmosh 5y agoI've always understood the F in any of these to translate to "fine" when in ahem polite company. Same number of characters. [EDIT] LOL wow that justification is wrong, forgot about the 'ing'. Still, that's the word I've usually seen subbed.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoIts Fucking
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- enumjorge 5y agoIt stands for “The Fucking Article”.
- conradludgate 5y agoFor a more sensible answer, I use "The Featured Article"
- dalmo3 5y agoTFA (thanks for answering).
- blaser-waffle 5y agoThe "Friendly" Article
- virgil_disgr4ce 5y ago"Big... FRIENDLY Gun 9000"
- echlebek 5y agoThe fine article
- hadlock 5y agoIf anyone is curious, the historical context for this (probably) comes from Slashdot, circa the year 2000, typical use is/was "I didn't RTFA, but..." or "did you even RTFA?, because..."