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password4321yesterday at 7:10 PM1 replyview on HN

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sitzfleisch: the ability to endure or carry on with an activity

Something Oppenheimer did not have, apparently.


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wongarsuyesterday at 7:27 PM

loaned from German, where it's originally a way to say buttocks, literally "sitting flesh". If you have more Sitzfleisch you can sit for longer. Both in the literal sense (a bigger butt makes sitting more comfortable) and in the figurative sense (having the mental ability to sit for longer, get more desk work done)

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