Specificity is always better. But sometimes you really just mean "a person who is not a lawyer." The wholesale condemnation of a short way of saying that triggers the nonconformist in me. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonmathematician … https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonpolitician … https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonacademic …https://twitter.com/kristinhodgins/status/1156947091412770817 …