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Great headline, terrible article. It mostly talks about German words and almost nothing of German work ethics. The only interesting bit is around the end where
by sidstling 8y ago
Great headline, terrible article. It mostly talks about German words and almost nothing of German work ethics. The only interesting bit is around the end where it quickly skirts over the fact that you need to make employees realize they are unproductive before you can work on their behavior.
All the other stuff is just meh. I mean, the language analysis isn’t even very good, or in depth, with terrible half-assed English translations.
Basically, don’t waste you time reading this.
- lnsru 8y agoNever heard about this “Sitzfleisch” thing living in Germany many many years. Young people don’t use it. Maybe it’s some old people thing?
- imartin2k 8y agoI’m German and I am sure I’ve never used this word. Few do. Some decades ago this might have been different.
- wirrbel 8y agoIt is a word, definitely more something you would hear a teacher say than say as normal person.
- ofrzeta 8y agoIt's true that it's not very much in fashion. I haven't used or heard it in decades. Might re-introduce it, though :)
- yborg 8y agoAs the article suggests, if you search Google for German language pages with "Sitzfleisch" and "Merkel" you will get pages of links from the last few years using the term. It could be an example of "newspaper German" like people sometimes make fun of the Frankfurter Allgemeine for.
- maxnoe 8y ago25yo German from the ruhrarea here. I have this Word in my active vocabulary and I'm quite surprised there are germans who don't even know it.
- maxnoe 8y agoBut more in the context of what you need for family gatherings
- groestl 8y agoMy family uses Sitzfleisch too, to describe a person who is always the last one to leave a party. Efficiency, productivity and work ethic are the last things on my mind if I hear someone being described as having "Sitzfleisch".
- oeuviz 8y agoWell "Sitzfleisch" is not something the young generation is popular for, therefore probably the loss from vocabulary.
- pragmatick 8y agoI never use it but know the word and usually when I hear it it's more negative, e.g. when you have guests who won't leave you might say that they have Sitzfleisch.
- hodgesrm 8y agoThis is the only meaning of Sitzfleisch I have ever encountered. It's not a compliment at least in our house.
- btschaegg 8y agoInteresting. I think I only ever heard the term in context with politicians that that were elected "too many times" by someone's standard. There, it certainly isn't meant positively -- the funny thing is that this goes rather well with the phrase mentioning Angela Merkel at the beginning of the article. There are more and more voices now that would prefer someone new taking her post.
- PurpleRamen 8y agoIt's the opposite, the headline is just misleading. Sitzfleisch is no concept of work ethic and has no relation with productivity. It's just a casual word to describe different types of mental endurance.
- NetOpWibby 8y agoThis is why I come to the comments first.