Tuesday, October 21, 2014

word of the day: taiga

The word of the day is taiga:

the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
< Russian taĭgá (dictionary.com)
 
 
"You may come upon a question mark in the most intimate places - midsentence, for instance, and with others of its kind, ganging up on some innocent situation and interrogating it to death.  Sprinkling question marks so liberally within a sentence, with no capital letters to make you think you've left it, emphasizes or mimics the thought process where such a series is appropriate....
 
Is the taiga everything you were hoping for?  Is it pure? distant? sublime?  Are the musk oxen still in their winter coats?  Are they talking to themselves? to the BBC audiences? to us?"
 
 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The New Well-Tempered Sentence 

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