About me. I am a 35-year-old male now living in western Massachusetts. I was diagnosed 6 years ago.

The last time I was here there were absolutely no posts so I left and did not return for over a year. It is nice to see that the site has grown so much. It’s good to find a place were ADDers can talk out issues and socialize.


Bonus: What does my user name mean? No looking it up!


This is me:

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Howdy Penultimate.

I dunno the dictionary definition of your name but I've always seen it used as synonymous with "ultimate"...

Nope...

Welcome from one Englander to another....

Hi Al, and Welcome (back) to the ADD Forums :)

Hiya... doesn't penultimate mean "second to last"?

We have a winner! :D

Yay! You can always rely on the foreigner whose mother tongue is German to solve the puzzle! :p

Ok. chane of subject... Why a stone horse shoe? Why up side down?

It’s a sculpture on campus where I went to school. There is no meaning to it that I know of.

Actually it was a complete circle at one time. Wedges were taken out of it that are the same general shape as pineapple wedges. These are around the base of the thing. People sometimes sit on them. I am posting a wider shot where you can see one of these wedges to the right. More are in front of me out of sight.

See what I mean?

Originally posted by Sc@tterBr@in_UK
Yay! You can always rely on the foreigner whose mother tongue is German to solve the puzzle! :p

I'm not sure we can call what the Swiss speak German, but anyhow...

Originally posted by Penultimate

I'm not sure we can call what the Swiss speak German, but anyhow...
Errrrr.... not sure what exactly you mean here!

I grew up speaking Swiss German, which is a dialect and yes it doesn't sound very much like German but then again most German dialects do not sound like the kind of German you learn in school, and it isn't a written language.

The official language (as used in business, schools, all written documents, all published books) however in the part of Switzerland I'm from is German, all books I read were in German, we had to write essays and take tests in German and so on. (In other parts it's French and Italian though - too many languages for such a small country!!!)

I know what you mean. It was intended as a joke.

I can usually understand Swiss German if the speaker is making an effort to speak high German. If they do it sounds like a Bavarian not trying to speak high German. I can understand Bavarian pretty well because I spent 4 years there. If the speaker is not making an effort to be understood I usually can’t understand more than 1/3 of what they are saying. I do better with Dutch than with Swiss German and I never learned Dutch!

I used to watch Swiss news programs because they had some interesting stuff on there. It was okay when the announcers were speaking but when the interviewed someone off the street, forget it! I didn’t get a word.

LOL yeah I wasn't sure how you meant it but I kind of couldn't believe someone over there would've actually had a clue what Swiss really sounds like (I mean already in the UK people thnk I'm from Sweden, and in NYC half my postcards were rerouted via Sweden - No kidding!!!)

You're right of course it's veyr hard to understand and even when we try to speak German some of the accents are frankly hilarious. Then again you should hear some people attempting to speak English! ;)