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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
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
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
punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The Publication Manual (p 97) notes that em dashes are “used to set off an element added to amplify or to digress from the main clause ” The em dash draws a reader’s attention, partly because of the physical separation that the longer dash creates and partly because these dashes appear less frequently than hyphens and en dashes
A word for when somebody deflects from a conversation? I was hoping for a word that is specifically used for after one has made a mistake, or just for some generally awkward situation, but digress may be the best word that exists Also, In your quote, I think you want to use "digression" instead of "digress"
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