The Pinghe Teacher Hotel in Shanghai
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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When letters are arranged in seemingly random order
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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
I was expecting "Theater" (or "Theatre") somewhere in there, which really complicated things.
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
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
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
Ooooh, right.
What is it meant to be?
Destroyed
A prime example of why companies need actual designers.
Stop moving my refrigerator magnets around.
Pinghe Teacher Hotel. Part of a boarding school in Shanghai, China.
Okay, so... What
I'd like to buy a vowel.
PINGHE NTEAR CHEO HTEL
Ping he tear che hotel
The pig heard the chello tell... ehh... I'm lost.
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