With Miranda, you have to understand how the US is going through a painful political shift with this new Trump administration, which is leaving a lot of people feeling excluded or persecuted by religious fundamentalists who have been given a lot of power. It should be obvious from context, but might sometimes require some understanding of current events. You have to understand what the writer (or speaker) is trying to say. 'Love' is a combination of many weird and inexplicable attractions which we collectively group as a single word, 'love' but we don't really understand.Īgain, the structure has no single meaning. Here 'love is love' could be a short, simple version of the more complex thought: The two of them are always fighting! I'll never understand how they stay a couple, but what can you do? Love is love. The words are left out because they're obvious from context, or because (in this case) the expression version has more direct emotional impact.įor example, in the above example, 'cake is cake' can be short for, 'Cake is just the ordinary dessert 'cake' which I don't really care for.' (Edit) The structure 'X is X' is actually a kind of ellipsis, meaning that it's short for a longer sentence, expression, concept, or thought. It helps if you fully understand the political context behind this statement, and why the situation makes him so emotional. ' emphatically implies the assertion that all people to love who they choose, in the way they choose, even though many (in the US) want to deny them this right. Miranda's repetition of 'love is love is love is love. It's one of those structures that works best when it's unexpected, and not overused. Sometimes this makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. If instead she said, 'Cake is cake is cake,' it would only emphasize how uninterested she is in any kind of cake.

Means that she feels cake is nothing special. 'Cake is cake', she said, 'but I prefer pie.' In English, repetition increases emphasis.

If you understand 'love is love' then you'll understand that 'love is love is love' is the same but more assertive.

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