PINGTHECEARHHEOTEL

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glimse@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 1y (5 replies)

The Pinghe Teacher Hotel in Shanghai

xkbx@startrek.website · 28 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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 pts · 1y

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

glimse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

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 pts · 1y (1 reply)

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Ooooh, right.

PlasticLove@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What is it meant to be?

Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y

Destroyed

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

A prime example of why companies need actual designers.

Zier@fedia.io · 13 pts · 1y

Stop moving my refrigerator magnets around.

TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1y

Pinghe Teacher Hotel. Part of a boarding school in Shanghai, China.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dontdeadopeninside/comments/u9545z/for_the_life_of_me_i_cant_figure_out_what_this/?rdt=53209

lurch@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y

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Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Okay, so... What

Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y

I'd like to buy a vowel.

casmael@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

PINGHE NTEAR CHEO HTEL

xia@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y

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

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Ping he tear che hotel

Creat@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y

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