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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
RTFM
/R T F M/ Read The Fucking Manual (always
abbreviated, sometimes bowdlerised to "Fine" or "Friendly") An
(unhelpful) guru's traditional response when someone asks a
question in a newsgroup or mailing list which he could
have easily answered for himself had he bothered to RTFM.
The term may also be used to indicate that you couldn't find
the answer in the manual. E.g. "How do I interface Unix to my
toaster? And yes, I did RTFM but the FM didn't help and I
can't RTFS."
Other derived forms include RTFAQ, RTFB, RTM, and, more
recently, STFW. Compare: UTSL.
[Earliest use?]
[{Jargon File]
(2003-06-07)
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]
RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp. [Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by gurus to brush off questions they consider trivial or
annoying. Compare Don't do that then!. 2. Used when reporting a
problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of randomness.
"No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I
have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also
FM, RTFAQ, RTFB, RTFS, STFW, RTM, all of which mutated from
RTFM, and compare UTSL.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) : [ vera ]
RTFM
Read The Flaming / Fucking Manual (telecommunication-slang, Usenet,
IRC)
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
RTFM
French phr.
(initialism of fr regarde ton foutu manuel) (look at your fucking
manual)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
RTFM
alt.
1 (lb en Internet slang) (initialism of en read the fucking manual)
2 (lb en Internet slang Unix) (initialism of en read the fucking man
page)
phr.
1 (lb en Internet slang) (initialism of en read the fucking manual)
2 (lb en Internet slang Unix) (initialism of en read the fucking man
page)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
RTFM
French phr.
(initialism of fr regarde ton foutu manuel) (look at your fucking
manual)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
RTFM
French phr.
(initialism of fr regarde ton foutu manuel) (look at your fucking
manual)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
RTFM
Englanti abbr.
(yhteys internet alatyyliä k=en) ''read the fucking manual'', lue
vitun käyttöohjeet
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
RTFM /ˌɑːtˌiːˌɛfˈɛm/
přečti si ten zapráskanej manuál (r(ead) t(he) f(ucking) m(anual))
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
RTFM /ˌɑːtˌiːˌɛfˈɛm/
přečti si ten proklatý manuál (r(ead) t(he) f(ucking) m(anual))
From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-jpn ]
RTFM /ˌɑːtˌiːˌɛfˈɛm/
マニュアル読め (マニュアルよめ) (manyuaru yome)
Abbreviation of Read the fucking manual
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