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

The Pinghe Teacher Hotel in Shanghai

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 week ago

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

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

Ooooh, right.

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

Looks like a shitty word search.

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

A prime example of why companies need actual designers.

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

Stop moving my refrigerator magnets around.

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

Okay, so... What

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

I'd like to buy a vowel.

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

PINGHE NTEAR CHEO HTEL

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

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

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

Ping he tear che hotel

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