Note also that most North American publishers use a hyphen after non only when it precedes a capital letter, so non-British and non-European, but nonbeliever and even nonnative. British publishers are much more apt to hyphenate all non-compounds no matter the following latter, so non-believer and non-native. Just don’t hyphenate nonchalant. :)

Oct 1, 2015 · Not is a negative adverb; no is a negative quantifier; non- is a negative prefix. Since negation is so important, thousands of idioms use each of these, among other negatives. Consequently there are lots of exceptions to the general rules below. Non- is not a word, but a part of another word, usually a descriptive adjective:

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.

Jul 18, 2018 · That is a good point -- 'not' is an adverb, but when it is morphed onto 'one' in 'none' it no longer affects the verb. You can either choose its plurality to be ambiguous "there is/are none that I like", or you can choose to treat it like 'zero', which is non-singular "there are none that I like" == "there is not one that I like". –

Then the single-statement version was coined. But now, most people recognise (and, I'd say, use) the slightly longer expression ... which is now equally 'a proverb'. Not the original, but hardly fake. If fake were taken to be a synonym of 'non-original', wouldn't all of Late Modern English (our present-day language) be 'fake'? –

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May 4, 2022 · Similar unintuitive results are obtained when the sentences stand in non-formal logical relations. B. Hale et al.; A Companion to the Philosophy of Language (2017) Although the non-ramified or simple theory of types has attracted much subsequent work, all type theory suffers from a problem of unintuitive duplication.

A tertiary, entirely neutral sense, "any kind of non-standard group talk", is now commonly used in academia. Vulgar: This means literally "of the people".The Oxford English Dictionary describes its development through the ages: I. 3. Commonly or customarily used by the people of a country; ordinary, vernacular. In common use c 1525–1650; now ...

Dec 19, 2014 · The term for this is a non-answer. The practice of giving non-answers could be described as evasion, avoidance, dodging the question, etc. A non sequitur is a statement that doesn't follow logically from the statements/premises that came before it, but in my experience it's not used to describe non-answers.

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