Okay, so I know when to "but I digress"; I use it when I'm talking about something and then stray off topic and talk about something else, so in order to get back to the topic, I say "but I digress". But the dictionary says that digress , a verb, means "to stray off of something, to wander from a path, or to turn aside, etc.".

Dec 18, 2015 · In all of these instances, the phrase containing "but I digress" occurs in the context of an author who has caught himself going off on a tangent from the main point of the discussion. The observation comes after the fact of having digressed already and of continuing (at least until the moment of making the observation) to digress.

Aug 22, 2021 · 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.

Jul 28, 2020 · 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 …

Sep 7, 2012 · 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.

Sep 9, 2016 · You can use the word digress: leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing. In your example, "I'm certain of it: the square root of 225 is 25," said Peter. But when Mary pulled out her phone and used the calculator app to find that it was in fact 15, Peter recoiled.

May 16, 2015 · When Sherlock Holmes digresses and then comes out of the digression it is usually because the observer may not be following or may confuse the observer to his main point. So he says, "Sorry Dr. Watson, I digress. Here is what we know..." Also I think that the audience is very pivotal in a digression.

Dec 4, 2019 · I'd not use 'anyway', 'but I digress' or 'enough of that' in most contexts, as perhaps also hinting that the digression (which might have been at least as important as the main topic) was rather capricious. Unless I'm admitting I had been being a little self-indulgent. And I feel 'back to topic' has a flavour of 'I tend to be a little abstracted'.

Dec 8, 2012 · @user541686: Merriam-Webster seems to take the opposite view: that retrogress(ive) applies to a one-off situation where backward figurative movement—whether intended or not—occurs, but regress(ive) applies to a stepwise backward figurative movement, which implies a planned process.

Jan 22, 2021 · 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 g...