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Off topic but does TFA still anyways mean "The Fucking Article"? In my personal understanding it came from people telling others to "read tfa". But to see the term used ubiquitously referring to "the article" but keeping the profanity just seems kinda strange to me. We could say something like "TA" and omit the "fucking" but maybe it actually means something completely different and my personal lore has just detached from the zeitgeist


I think it does mean "the fucking article", but I also think a lot of people use it as "the featured article". I agree with you though, it's a bit confusing sometimes as the less nice usage is still also common hahaha.




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