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Car­o­line McCarthy at CNET notes the fol­low­ing:

This week, an alter­ation in New York City tran­sit signs to address forth­com­ing route changes have placed an unfor­tu­nate Inter­net acronym on a heav­ily traf­ficked sub­way sta­tion: Dis­plays that list the color-coded sub­way ser­vices run­ning at the 14th Street-6th Avenue under­ground sta­tion now dis­play a bold “FML.”

The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Trans­porta­tion Author­ity, or MTA, may or may not have been aware that this is an acronym for “f*** my life,” a pro­fane excla­ma­tion of dis­gruntle­ment that arose in Web forums, in text mes­sages, and on a pop­u­lar blog sev­eral years ago.

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