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- What does the idiom phrase but I digress mean?
28 I digress is relatively idiomatic, and thus, even though the present continuous would be normally used, i e "I am digressing" it isn't because it's been culturally solidified You mean the second sentence The phrase is indicating self-consciousness of being off-topic, and therefore a return back to the original topic
- syntactic analysis - Does but I digress normally get used before or . . .
I know "but I digress" is used to symbolize when someone has gone off topic but returns to being on topic but with the above "but I digress" sounds right both before and after the off-topic portion (the non-bold italics), at least in my head (cold comfort that)
- What are the different resources to announce a digression?
Sometimes it's enough to enclose the digression in parentheses, especially if it's brief Alternatively, you could use introductory formulations like "Looking at this from a slightly different perspective, "; "A different approach involves "; "It may be useful to contrast that line of argument with " But it's not possible to be sure what would work in your situation without descriptions
- american english - Can you use I digress after you rant, even if it . . .
You can add "I digress" after a rant, but I would not usually do it If you do it, it would cause everyone to burst out laughing The effect is one of a form of bathos - a figure of speech, invariably humorous, in which the tone of the speaker suddenly changes from serious to mundane A rant is a serious complaint issued angrily - "I digress" is polite, self-deprecating, and formal
- What expression should I use after I have digressed and I want to . . .
If I say "but I digress," then that indicates I have already digressed and I am finished However, my concern is with the expression "if I may digress " So suppose I am talking about tanks and it
- single word requests - Digress? obfuscate? pivot? approach avoidance . . .
Digress or obfuscate, pivot or approach avoidance all imply deliberate intent, which is in no way clear in the example (Pragmatic topic loss is not something I've heard of, or follow ) The given answers might be useless but that can't be determined from the examples
- dictionaries - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 Basically when someone jumps to a kind of related topic and talks about it very passionately for a while What is the word for that? As in, "I hate to go on a -------- but I want to tell the group about how the themes in this book relate to modern topics " Not tangent or digress
- Complement of digress? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Regress could work, but if you digress, then it's closer to deviate in its use in this sense So I don't think there is a single word for un-digress in this context In the sentence "let me just digress and speak about XYZ," you would use the sentence "anyway, to return to the main topic " so I think "return" would work best as you are returning from a digression
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