KOLO-TV on MSN: Sparks Police roll out AI assistant to help with non-emergency calls
Sparks Police and DeskOfficer say the AI assistant is aimed at improving response on the non-emergency line by quickly answering questions, routing calls, and reducing hold times — while keeping ...
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 se...
Using "non-" to prefix a two-word phrase - English Language & Usage ...
The bound morpheme non is the negator for life-threatening here, so 'life-threatening' is more coherent. This does not come across with nonlife-threatening, which would seem to imply a threat to non-life. Leaving non stranded doesn't work either as it is a bound morpheme, a prefix not a word (in English). I'd use the two hyphens.
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.
What term describes a non-offensive substitute for a swear word? For example, Battlestar Galactica used frack instead of fuck. Another example is the use of snap instead of shit. I think I may h...
Non-offensive substitute for a swear word - English Language & Usage ...
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. In any case, an isolated "non" is definitely wrong, in any flavo [u]r of the English language.