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[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Pinghe Teacher Hotel in Shanghai

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Ooooh, right.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

A prime example of why companies need actual designers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Looks like a shitty word search.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Stop moving my refrigerator magnets around.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Okay, so... What

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I'd like to buy a vowel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

PINGHE NTEAR CHEO HTEL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Ping he tear che hotel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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