Learn English – the technical term for an infinite sentence

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Is there a name for the infinite (repeating, unending) sentence or paragraph? Here is an example of what I mean:

Joe Blow is a chef, painter, author and vocalist from San Francisco who enjoys vinyl records, black and white movies and referring to himself in third-person, as in “Joe Blow is a chef, painter, author and vocalist from San Francisco who enjoys vinyl records, black and white movies and referring to himself in third-person, as in "Joe Blow is a chef, painter, author and vocalist from San Francisco who enjoys vinyl records, black and white movies and referring to himself in third-person, as in "Joe Blow is a chef, painter, author and vocalist from San Francisco who enjoys vinyl records, black and white movies and referring to himself in third-person, as in………..

Best Answer

Your example is a recursive sentence

of, relating to, or constituting a procedure that can repeat itself indefinitely

a recursive rule in a grammar

(MW)

I don't know about the use of recursion in sentences or paragraphs, but there are a number of recursive acronyms used in the IT industry, some notable being PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) and as @SGR pointed out GNU (GNU's not Unix).