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Interfinity mark
An interfinity question is a question that has both an infinite number of answers and no answer at all. Interfinity allows opposites to coexist.
In written conversation the interfinity mark* indicates that the question should be understood on a secondary level in which interrogative and infinite expressions are combined. The interfinity mark differs from the short-lived percontation point, invented in the late sixteenth century to indicate rhetorical questions, in that it denotes ever-lasting and ever-occurring questions:
Is there life beyond planet Earth?
Does god exist?
Am I awake or am I dreaming?
Is there life after death?
What is the meaning of life?
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But why?
In a typographic sense the interfinity mark can be described as an interrogative punctuation mark formed by superimposing a vertical infinity mark (∞) with a question mark (?).
© Radim Pesko & Zak Kyes (First Published in Grafik Magazine, January, 2011)
The interfinity mark was first used in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating (2010), a book of interviews with a curator who always has the question mark handy.
Interfinity mark to be implemented into all RP fonts in near future.
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