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Rule 1: All post titles except for meta posts should be just plain "hmmm" and nothing else, no emotes, no capitalisation, no extending it to "hmmmm" etc.

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hmmm (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/hmmm

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Lots of markings on roads follow this pattern. I think the logic is that the closer (bottom) text comes into focus first.

But yeah, when you look at it, it just looks backwards

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem is that humans are not Xerox machines and we don't read by a direct line moving ahead of us, but instead we focus on objects. If the "LANE | BIKE" sign were separated by fifty feet it would be logical, as each line would be its own distinct object, but by having them so close it actually inhibits attribution.

[–] vxx 4 points 3 weeks ago

I would argue that as soon as that's the case and letters have to be spread far and wide, a sign might be more appropriate.

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

I mean, I didn't even notice it was written backwards until these comments, so obviously some of us have already learned to read it that way.