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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Pinghe Teacher Hotel in Shanghai

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Man, that was a headache. Thank you. Looks like it’s meant to be read left to right, top to bottom, straight lines only, except around the middle-ish (formatting this on mobile so it probably won’t work):

P I

N G

H E

T E A

C H E R

H O

T E L

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I was expecting "Theater" (or "Theatre") somewhere in there, which really complicated things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the G, R, and O that fucks up what they were going for. It otherwise conforms to it's stand if left to right, top to bottom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah its the Pinghe bit because it seems to make no sense as most people don't recognise it as a... Place?

The rest of the stuff you can work out pretty easily but the start just confuses everything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No I'm saying that if they were going for "read each upperleft-most letter then repeat," those letters are where that system fails.

The entire thing undeniably fails at the task of being a legible sign

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ooooh, right.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Looks like a shitty word search.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A prime example of why companies need actual designers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Stop moving my refrigerator magnets around.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Okay, so... What

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'd like to buy a vowel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

PINGHE NTEAR CHEO HTEL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ping he tear che hotel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The pig heard the chello tell... ehh... I'm lost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Best I could do: "Ping the ear cheo h[o]tel"

Edit: after "reading" it again, I seem to be missing an O for this clearly sensible interpretation. Marked the O