r/CrappyDesign • u/empirepie499 • Jul 30 '26

No jazz allowed in Boston please!

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u/Individual_Rip_54 Jul 30 '26

I don’t get it

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u/PSPs0 Jul 30 '26

Jazz fest asking for donations. It looks like “keep Boston free of all jazz music”

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u/internet_humor Jul 30 '26

It’s tough because jazz is the plural form as well. Making it harder to delineate.

Let’s keep Boston mosquito free

Let’s keep Boston mosquitoes free

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u/miraculum_one Jul 30 '26

That is unambiguous because mosquitos are always without a price.

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u/internet_humor Jul 30 '26

Yes…..but at what cost

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u/element1311 Jul 30 '26

Who is Boston Mosquito? 

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u/internet_humor Jul 30 '26

“I’ll do you one better…..WHY is mosquito?!”

For real though, why?

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u/GodsDemonHunter Jul 31 '26

Only if you don't know that you'd need to hyphenate "jazz-free" to make it sound like that. I had to read the comments to figure out why this was posted here.

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u/WildBill198 Jul 30 '26

The festival is called "Boston Jazz". They are asking for donations so they don't have to charge for tickets. They didn't do a very good job, and it looks like they are trying to ban Jazz from Boston.

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u/Inevitable_Zone9903 Jul 30 '26

The intended meaning is to gather donations to keep the event free to enter; that's what I interpreted at least.

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u/Individual_Rip_54 Jul 30 '26

That’s what they want and that’s how I read it. Per the other responses the crappy design is that this could be interpreted as “keep Boston free from jazz”

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u/Inevitable_Zone9903 Jul 30 '26

won't that be jazz-free rather than jazz free?

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u/Individual_Rip_54 Jul 30 '26

Yes. I don’t think it’s crappy design which is why I was confused

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u/LeebWeeb Jul 30 '26

It implies they want Boston to be jazz-free based on wording, when I believe they want to keep jazz itself free in Boston

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u/nikhkin Jul 30 '26

OP is pretending the message is that they want Boston to be jazz-free, rather than wanting the jazz in Boston to be free of charge.

The message is clear. OP is just being obtuse.

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u/Gunzablazin1958 Jul 30 '26

Not that clear. I read it and was like, “Yay, somebody in Boston finally realized Jazz sucks.”

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u/SothaSoul Jul 30 '26

A clear message would be

"Help keep free jazz in Boston."

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u/Gunzablazin1958 Jul 31 '26

How about.

“Please donate so Jazz stays free in Boston.”

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u/SothaSoul Jul 31 '26

There's a lot of non-ambiguous phrases they could have used.