2021/8/17 Yeah, so the real question is, is ‘is is’ as fun for you to say as it is for me to say? I also like to say ‘it is’ as a response to a statement that is true. Intoning ‘it is’ reifies the subject mentioned, but I don’t believe in its reality so it is a subtle ironic joke for me to reify it. There’s so much to tone. We communicate so much with the variance we add to words. The hoops we have to jump through to fit those same snippets of meaning into written words. They’re quite plentiful.