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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Pinghe Teacher Hotel in Shanghai

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months 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

[–] naryn@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months 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

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months 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

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Ooooh, right.

[–] PlasticLove@lemmy.today 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago
[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Looks like a shitty word search.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

A prime example of why companies need actual designers.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 12 points 10 months ago

Stop moving my refrigerator magnets around.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago
[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Okay, so... What

[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

I'd like to buy a vowel.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

PINGHE NTEAR CHEO HTEL

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Ping he tear che hotel

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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