Timeline for What is the word for a non-creative task?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 19, 2016 at 12:35 | comment | added | Fattie | I have to agree that this answer is really just wrong. The OP is about the duality between "creative" and "mechanical" tasks. By all means, certain "creative" tasks are menial; certain mechanical tasks are menial. The opposite of menial is something like "managerial". Again by all means some creative tasks are managerial; some rote tasks are managerial. This answer, I'm afraid to say, is simply wrong and misleading. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 2:09 | comment | added | Insane | @ringo if that was the consensus opinion the answer would've been down voted more than it has | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 16:04 | comment | added | ringo | @medica When someone asks a question you shouldn't tell them to change it so your answer works better. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 16:04 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | Why do almost all the answers assume it must be a negative quality? "Menial" wouldn't suit countless non-creative but non-menial skilled, high-focus/high-function tasks where a procedure is followed, from anaesthetising a patient to landing an aeroplane to, well, like in the asker's example, bricklaying (which is a high-skill task). | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 4:48 | history | edited | Mazura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 4:29 | comment | added | Mazura | This is the word I tried to think of, but I kept thinking of remedial. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 3:28 | comment | added | ringo | Or perhaps your word is not well-suited... | |
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 3:13 | history | answered | David Robert Griggs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |