I often find myself saying something and having to explain, There’s a question-mark after that, by the way.

Conversations with purpose are transformative; I am intrigued to know what you’ll say if I say this or that.  I’m testing out thoughts I’ve read or have come to me.  How long can we keep the conversation going?  What will you say and what will happen in me as a result?  Will you play the game of infinite conversation?

The finite player wants to say something which will end the conversation, win the argument, they are already certain of what they will say.  The infinite player wants to say something to continue the conversation – who knows what will be uncovered as people listen to them and they listen in return? – and though they know sometimes the conversation must end, it is always in the knowledge of the infinite conversation within which it takes place.

I play this game poorly but I want to play it better.

Finite language exists complete before it is spoken.  There
is first a language – then we learn to speak it.  Infinite language
exists only as it is spoken – when we learn to speak it.’