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Reader question: Please explain “tall task” in the following: The PadFone Station is essentially a 10.1-inch tablet and looks almost identical to the rest of the ASUS tablets – thanks to its bronze chassis and black bezel. The only physical attribute that gives its identity away is the bulge at the top center section of its back, which is the location where you insert the PadFone into the Station to dock’em up. Weighing at 724g, it’s actually quite a tall task to market the PadFone Station as a viable tablet accessory when the rest of the 10.1-inch tablets in the market are considerably lighter and thinner... My comments: In other words, it is a tall order to market it. The PadFone Station will be difficult to sell because its size and bigness, i.e. it is too heavy. Good as it is, the ASUS tablet accessory will probably be a hard sell but that’s not our business. Here, our task is to get to grips with “tall task” the phrase itself. “Tall” as adjective is mostly used to describe somebody or something that’s big, especially in terms of height, a tall boy, a tall tree, a tall building, etc. Knowing this, and taking it at face value, a tall task is then a task (job) that appears huge, tall and daunting. Hence figuratively speaking a tall task is something difficult of accomplishment, if not entirely impossible. Yao Ming is tall, for instance, and it’s a tall task anytime for him to try to squeeze his 2.26-m frame into a minivan. | 
