That wild Ask a Manager story

Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by Mezzie on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:12AM (#30345934)

For some reason I'd always been under the impression that the 'F' in 'TFA' was a different word. This makes so many exchanges less hostile in retrospect. Oops.

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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by krupan on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:32AM (#30346904)

Featured, Fine, Fu… could be any of those. Deliberate ambiguity is fun for a lot of humans

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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by ankitpati on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:58AM (#30346452)

This, right here, is why I never use acronyms with the sixth letter of the English alphabet anywhere in them. Heck, as you might already have noticed, I don’t use said letter at all, unless it is part of a word.

This is one “human corner case” I have no shame working around. Wouldn’t want to convey hostility where none exists.

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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by stronglikedan on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:14AM (#30347485)

The F-word (I'll spare your virgin eyes), or even the letter F, is not capable of conveying hostility on it's own, so there is no sense in omitting it.

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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by marcosdumay on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:34PM (#30350670)

The acronym was coined with the non "fine" meaning for that letter. It was much later that internet culture got more polite and people retroactively replaced the meaning on RTFM and RTFA.

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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by jetbooster on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:56AM (#30347223)

I'm almost certain what you're thinking is the original usage. TFA (disparaging, implying the person you are responding hasn't read it) was co-opted as TFA (neutral)

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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by dredmorbius on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:23PM (#30350517)

"Fabulous!!!"

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