[Ads-l] TF

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Fri Oct 3 17:05:55 UTC 2025


And writing as well....

I've been tracking _TF_ for a couple of years. I would have put it into ed. 4, but I couldn't get around to aggressively searching for it, so I left it out. I used it in a recent conference paper as a specific example of something that was hard to research.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 12:50:32PM -0400, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> 'WTF.'
> 
> 2025 Quora.com:  You know what, I will actually push back on that BS. TF
> are you talking about?
> 
> The "what" is often dropped in speech.
> 
> JL
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