Oct 1, 2015 · At the linguistics conference, there were no / not / non- native speakers of Esperanto. They're all grammatically "valid", but they all mean different things - and pragmatically / idiomatically, only the no version is likely to be used.

24 Does "non-" prefixed to a two word phrase permit another hyphen before the second word? If I want to refer to an entity which is defined as the negation of another entity by attaching "non-" it seems strange to attach the "non-" only to the first word when the second one is really the word naming the entity. For example, non-control freak

Except "non" is not an English word, it is a prefix of Latin origin. Which is why American style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen. British rules differ, and the "non-" construction is frequently found in the literature.

Oct 5, 2015 · "Non-" is defined as "a prefix meaning 'not,' freely used as an English formative, usually with a simple negative force as implying mere negation or absence of something (rather than the opposite or reverse of it, as often expressed by un-).

Jun 5, 2018 · In fiction such as Star Wars, this is further mangled into a distinction between "non-sentient" or "sub-sentient," "semi-sentient" and "fully sentient." Initially I thought the sentient, sapient and sophont distinction was just a semantically correct version of the Star Wars …

Nov 22, 2019 · What is the correct way to apply the prefix "non-" to negate a (maybe dashed) compound adjective? Suppose that we want to negate a generic compound adjective " adjective1 adjective2 ". In this case: "non- adjective1 adjective2 " looks a bit ambiguous since the scope of the prefix "non-" is at least unclear (in fact seems to affect only adjective1).

Atypical is by far the most common of the three, as confirmed in a Google Ngram search, so that would be my suggestion. Untypical is apparently most often used in the phrase "not untypical". Another Google Ngram search supports this. Nontypical, and with a hyphen non-typical, are hardly used at all. I cannot find an entry for either in any popular online dictionary.

Mar 29, 2019 · Is there a gender-neutral alternative to "Jane Doe" / "John Doe"? I would like to provide an example of signed form, but how to avoid using gender when it comes to names? Is there some widely-used

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Nov 9, 2014 · Both "unfeasible" and "infeasible" are words according to spell-check, and they appear have similar dictionary definitions. But what is the difference between the two words? Is one more acceptable ...