You look for a word. You’re about to say it. Then, poof, it’s gone. What’s going on? The tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) moment phenomenon = both the forgetting of a word or name and the trace of it in our memory.

German has some beautiful words. Besides schadenfreude, wanderlust, doppelgänger, weltanschauung, schmetterling and scheiße, arguably its most useful word is sitzfleisch. In short, sitzfleisch (assflesh, assmeat) demands that we take the decision to not half-ass our way through any task.