What is is it?

The spread and mutation of the double-is, as in the thing is is... or the point is, is..., continues apace. Language Log analyzed the phenomenon in 2004, and I wrote about it later that year.

Yesterday I heard a strange variant at the office: The point that you're missing is is that...

Somehow it sounds especially wrong when the is is is separated from the point.

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