Which is why american style manuals will always ask you to merge it with the subsequent word, without a hyphen It usually gets a smile from another italian speaker, because it's a nice way to conclude (even serious) discussions about things that are complex and not working 100% according to plan and for which there may be no solution Suppose that we want to negate a generic compound adjective adjective1 adjective2
non-nudes
You used the dash in the wrong place
I might be tempted to create an open compound, but non doesn’t stand alone.
In australian english, we'd refer to using feet, inches, pounds, ounces and the like as imperial units 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. Non tutte le ciambelle riescono col buco (literally not all donuts come out with holes)
