While I find the concept interesting, I doubt it's authenticity.
I do believe that words count probably more than we know or can understand, and that changing the sign would have some affect.
Humans are generally pretty selfabsorbed in their daily goings on, so I doubt that very many would notice the sign to start with.
Sorry to rain on a parade, but it is time for some cynicism.


I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe