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[–] glimse 72 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Pinghe Teacher Hotel in Shanghai

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] glimse 3 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 points 3 weeks 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