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Re:What Is the Most Realistic Submarine Movie Ever Made? [U.... by bookofjoe on Sunday June 22, 2025 @09:05AM (#44346626)
Sigh. The curse of the acronym. I have to look up what TFA stands for. At least I didn't waste fellow HN peeps' time by commenting "What does TFA mean?" I will never understand why someone would take more time to post a comment like that than it would take to Google it....
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Re:What Is the Most Realistic Submarine Movie Ever Made? [U.... by bookofjoe on Sunday June 22, 2025 @09:11AM (#44346672)
Turns out I'm not the only one! Here's a spirited discussion on HN from 2019 in which a number of commenters note they have no clue what it means, or else have had it wrong all along:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756

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Re:What Is the Most Realistic Submarine Movie Ever Made? [U.... by mellosouls on Sunday June 22, 2025 @02:07PM (#44348966)
tbf i only started using it the other day after i googled it myself (though I dimly remembered it from the past).

I've normally used OP (as in Original Post) but that can get confused with Original Poster (and the initial comment rather than the featured article).

TFA is more specific and now that I've learned it I think its valid to use on a board where it is likely to be a regular useful shortcut.

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Re:What Is the Most Realistic Submarine Movie Ever Made? [U.... by fat_cantor on Monday June 23, 2025 @07:27PM (#44361266)
It was widely used on slashdot, I just assume that people who use this Three Letter Acronym (TLA) are also /. refugees
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Re:What Is the Most Realistic Submarine Movie Ever Made? [U.... by fat_cantor on Monday June 23, 2025 @07:07PM (#44361127)
TLAs FTW!
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