[secret garden2]

Sitz = seat and platz = place, right? Maybe it's a question of dialects. My source studied it throughout college, in literature and conversation, from German Jesuits. His form may be more formal than yours. As for me, I studied French, so c'est la vie. ;)

[patton]

c'est la guerre.

sitzen - verb, transitive, to sit.

Platz - noun, masculine, seat

Nehmen Sie Platz - High (snotty, harvard-like) German idiom - "Take you a place." in englisch, "Please, sit down."

[patton]

Now, see, this speech remind me of the one I gave when I graduated as Valedictrian of my German Class from das Verteidigungsspracheninstitut, in 1983.

It didn't go well, either. ;)