Nonsane would be better, I think. Whereas unsane suggests a strongly opposite to sane, nonsane suggests a mere lack of sanity. It also looks like it might be related to nonsense, which is a common product of nonsanity.
I also like nonsane better, for those reasons and because I would predict that using unsane in conversations with persons considered to be so, is more likely to provoke Logical Rudeness and dismissal in the form of “it’s pronounced ‘insane’, idiot”, than nonsane is likely to.
Nonsane is a clearly-separate term. Unsane pattern-matches to Ralph Wiggum.
Nonsane would be better, I think. Whereas unsane suggests a strongly opposite to sane, nonsane suggests a mere lack of sanity.
I’m shocked that this ended up in an extreme upward spiral. “Strongly opposite” doesn’t seem to be the suggestion at all. We have an actual word (insane) that means that and the fact that someone has clearly gone out of their way to use insane is an overwhelmingly strong indication that they are not trying to say “strongly opposite to sane!”
The difference between “non-X” and “unX” tends to be that ‘unX’ is closer to being consolidated into a single word than ‘non-X’ which is closer to a word with an external operator applied. Kind of like ‘atheist’ vs ‘non-theist’. Real words that are actually words tend to be ‘unX’ and not ‘nonX’ (typing nonchristian into google just gives you a suggestion to try ‘non christian’ which in turn returns results consisting ‘non-christian’) so creating a fake word of the type ‘nonX’ is just totally unnatural.
The above is not to say that ‘unsane’ should be used as alternative to using ‘sane’ with a ‘non’ operator. Just that having my tribe adopt a ‘nonsane’ as a jargon word would be outright embarassing. It’s nerdy while not even having the saving grace of doing nerdy right!
Nonsane would be better, I think. Whereas unsane suggests a strongly opposite to sane, nonsane suggests a mere lack of sanity. It also looks like it might be related to nonsense, which is a common product of nonsanity.
I also like nonsane better, for those reasons and because I would predict that using unsane in conversations with persons considered to be so, is more likely to provoke Logical Rudeness and dismissal in the form of “it’s pronounced ‘insane’, idiot”, than nonsane is likely to.
Nonsane is a clearly-separate term. Unsane pattern-matches to Ralph Wiggum.
I’m shocked that this ended up in an extreme upward spiral. “Strongly opposite” doesn’t seem to be the suggestion at all. We have an actual word (insane) that means that and the fact that someone has clearly gone out of their way to use insane is an overwhelmingly strong indication that they are not trying to say “strongly opposite to sane!”
The difference between “non-X” and “unX” tends to be that ‘unX’ is closer to being consolidated into a single word than ‘non-X’ which is closer to a word with an external operator applied. Kind of like ‘atheist’ vs ‘non-theist’. Real words that are actually words tend to be ‘unX’ and not ‘nonX’ (typing nonchristian into google just gives you a suggestion to try ‘non christian’ which in turn returns results consisting ‘non-christian’) so creating a fake word of the type ‘nonX’ is just totally unnatural.
The above is not to say that ‘unsane’ should be used as alternative to using ‘sane’ with a ‘non’ operator. Just that having my tribe adopt a ‘nonsane’ as a jargon word would be outright embarassing. It’s nerdy while not even having the saving grace of doing nerdy right!