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Would you mind explaining what TFA means, as I've seen that acronym quite a bit here? "The f-g article"?
by zogrodea 3y ago
Would you mind explaining what TFA means, as I've seen that acronym quite a bit here? "The f-g article"?
- jfengel 3y agoPrecisely. Sometimes you'll hear it expanded as "The Fine Article" or just "The Article". Often, it really does mean just "the article". People use the acronym without expanding it out or thinking too deeply about it. At one point, decades ago, it may have connoted some kind of hostility (e.g. "If you had read the f---ing article..."), and it's still meant that way in "RTFA" (read the f---ing article, meaning "that was already answered, so you clearly haven't read the thing that we're supposed to be discussing") But now, it's mostly just a kind of in-joke, and TFA means nothing more than "the article", with the F entirely silent.
- zogrodea 3y agoThank you for the answer. Had encountered the acronym about the manual before, but this one is a first.
- bawolff 3y agoThe friendly article, if you don't like curse words.
- zogrodea 3y agoAppreciate the answer and alternative acronym-expansion. Thanks.
- epiccoleman 3y ago"the featured article" is my favorite non-profane expansion
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