{"id":3641,"date":"2006-08-27T20:05:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T03:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/08\/27\/stfw.html"},"modified":"2006-08-27T20:05:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T03:05:43","slug":"stfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/08\/27\/stfw\/","title":{"rendered":"STFW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've known the phrase \"RTFM\" for many years, and I've been using the phrase \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/06\/15\/2931.html\">TSOR<\/a>\" for about three years, but I had never previously encountered \"STFW.\"<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought it was a variant on \"STFU\" (\"Shut The Fuck Up\"), but from context that clearly wasn't right.  (The context was ESR's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/faqs\/smart-questions.html\">How to Ask Questions the Smart Way<\/a>, which I just saw for the first time even though it's apparently been around for years.)  Then the document expanded the acronym: it stands for \"Search The Fucking Web.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sort of like TSOR, but blunter.<\/p>\n<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I'm obliquely reminded to mention that a few years ago, a tech-writing group that I was in named a server \"wtfm\"--which, of course, stood for \"Write The Fucking Manual.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known the phrase &#8220;RTFM&#8221; for many years, and I&#8217;ve been using the phrase &#8220;TSOR&#8221; for about three years, but I had never previously encountered &#8220;STFW.&#8221; At first I thought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}